40 Lorimer Close, Luton LU2 7RL

Detached house · Built 1983-1990 · 117 m² · Owner-Occupied · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

DB for £17,500 · £8,750 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Cavity wall insulation£500 – £1,500£9710.3 yrs+3.7 pts · reaches C
Floor insulation£4,000 – £6,000£13038.6 yrs+4.9 pts
Solar water heating£4,000 – £6,000£10149.7 yrs+3.8 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels£5,000 – £8,000£12050+ yrs+4.6 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

£1,562
per year at grade D
£1,115
per year at grade B

The full plan saves £447 a year — a 2.6% annual return on £17,500.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2016, states £1,081 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

31 March 2016£299,950
8 March 2013£237,500
21 March 2007£240,000
24 August 2001£152,000
29 November 1996£87,950

Estimated today: £409,945 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Lorimer Close: 186 sales since 1995 · £299,862 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Bushmead Primary & Nursery SchoolPrimary0.4 mi
Warden Hill Junior SchoolPrimary0.7 mi
Warden Hill Infant AcademyPrimary0.7 mi
Icknield High SchoolSecondary0.7 miProgress 8 +0.54 · well above average (2023/24)
Stopsley High SchoolSecondary0.8 miProgress 8 -0.33 · below average (2023/24)
Cardinal Newman Catholic School A Specialist Science CollegeSecondary0.9 miProgress 8 +0.38 · above 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.

4.1
crimes a month
29
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 38% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01015696, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Lorimer Close

How this home sits against its street.

47
graded homes
65.1
average score
D
most common grade
+0.9
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.