8 Kimpton Road, Peters Green, Luton LU2 9PR

Semi-Detached house · Built 1900-1929 · 131 m² · Owner-Occupied · Boiler and radiators, LPG

Upgrade Plan

EC for £19,500 · £9,750 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Floor insulation£800 – £1,200£1347.4 yrs+5.6 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels£3,500 – £5,500£12436.2 yrs+5.1 pts · reaches D
Solar water heating£4,000 – £6,000£10448.0 yrs+4.3 pts
Solid wall insulation£4,000 – £14,000£14550+ yrs+6.0 pts · reaches C

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

£1,993
per year at grade E
£1,485
per year at grade C

The full plan saves £508 a year — a 2.6% annual return on £19,500.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2024, states £2,045 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

18 May 2018£650,000
1 December 2015£500,000
3 May 2005£269,950

Estimated today: £775,301 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Kimpton Road: 18 sales since 1995 · £680,000 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Breachwood Green Junior Mixed and Infant SchoolPrimary1.9 mi
Kimpton Primary SchoolPrimary2.0 mi
The Lea Primary School and NurseryPrimary2.1 mi
Sir John Lawes SchoolSecondary2.5 miProgress 8 +0.79 · well above average (2023/24)
Katherine Warington SchoolSecondary2.5 miProgress 8 +0.48 · above average (2023/24)
St George's SchoolSecondary2.6 miProgress 8 +0.65 · well 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.

6.8
crimes a month
68
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 34% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01023626, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Kimpton Road

How this home sits against its street.

11
graded homes
53.5
average score
E
most common grade
-4.5
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.