8 Oaks Drive, Newbold Verdon, Leicester LE9 9PH

Semi-Detached house · Built 1950-1966 · 94 m² · Owner-occupied · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

DB for £20,140 · £10,070 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Low energy lighting£40£49.5 yrs+0.2 pts
Floor insulation£800 – £1,200£9610.4 yrs+5.1 pts · reaches C
Band A condensing boiler£2,200 – £3,000£5944.2 yrs+3.1 pts
Solar water heating£4,000 – £6,000£7450+ yrs+3.9 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels£9,000 – £14,000£8950+ yrs+4.7 pts · reaches B

Grants verified 20 August 2026. Costs are the register’s indicative ranges. Savings are restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. Points per measure are estimated from 19.9 million certificates and rescaled to this home’s own certificate delta; the total is the register’s figure.

Running costs

£1,339
per year at grade D
£1,017
per year at grade B

The full plan saves £322 a year — a 1.6% annual return on £20,140.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2013, states £808 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

10 December 2013£148,500

Estimated today: £278,134 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Oaks Drive: 9 sales since 1995 · £244,250 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

The schools’ own performance — Progress 8 shows value added, not just raw results.

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Newbold Verdon Primary SchoolPrimary0.4 mi
Desford Community Primary SchoolPrimary1.6 mi
Barlestone Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary2.0 mi
Bosworth AcademySecondary2.1 miProgress 8 +0.08 · average (2023/24)
The Market Bosworth SchoolSecondary2.9 miProgress 8 +0.83 · well above average (2023/24)
Heath Lane AcademySecondary3.7 miProgress 8 -0.55 · well below average (2023/24)

Schools from the DfE register, performance from the KS4 performance tables. Progress 8 is a GCSE measure, so primaries have none. Distance is straight-line from the postcode, not a catchment: admission is decided by the school, not by us.

Area context

Police-recorded crime for the wider neighbourhood, not this address. We grade homes, never neighbourhoods — so this is reported as a count, not a rating.

13.2
crimes a month
145
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 42% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01025875, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Oaks Drive

How this home sits against its street.

11
graded homes
69.9
average score
D
most common grade
-3.9
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.