148 Chesford Road, Luton LU2 8DS

Semi-Detached house · Built 1976-1982 · 64 m² · Owner-Occupied · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

CB for £16,500 · £16,500 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Floor insulation£4,000 – £6,000£3750+ yrs+5.6 pts
Solar water heating£4,000 – £6,000£2950+ yrs+4.3 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels£5,000 – £8,000£3550+ yrs+5.1 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

£902
per year at grade C
£801
per year at grade B

The full plan saves £101 a year — a 0.6% annual return on £16,500.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2017, states £598 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

4 December 2025£322,000
27 September 2017£246,000

Estimated today: £325,811 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Chesford Road: 465 sales since 1995 · £262,585 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Putteridge Primary SchoolPrimary0.3 mi
Someries Junior SchoolPrimary0.4 mi
Someries Infant School and Early Childhood Education CentrePrimary0.4 mi
Putteridge High SchoolSecondary0.3 miProgress 8 +0.23 · above average (2023/24)
Queen Elizabeth SchoolSecondary0.7 miProgress 8 -0.34 · below average (2023/24)
Stopsley High SchoolSecondary0.8 miProgress 8 -0.33 · 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.

4.8
crimes a month
43
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 44% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01015799, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Chesford Road

How this home sits against its street.

192
graded homes
64.7
average score
D
most common grade
+6.3
this home vs street
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