159 Bishopscote Road, Luton LU3 1PD

Detached house · Built 1930-1949 · 119 m² · Owner-Occupied · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

EB for £21,600 · £7,200 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Floor insulation£800 – £1,200£1895.3 yrs+5.4 pts · reaches D
Room-in-roof insulation£1,500 – £2,700£2618.1 yrs+7.5 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels£3,500 – £5,500£17525.7 yrs+5.0 pts · reaches C
Solar water heating£4,000 – £6,000£14734.1 yrs+4.2 pts
Solid wall insulation£4,000 – £14,000£20444.1 yrs+5.9 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

£2,201
per year at grade E
£1,226
per year at grade B

The full plan saves £975 a year — a 4.5% annual return on £21,600.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2020, states £1,409 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

18 March 2011£200,000
18 April 2007£185,000

Estimated today: £413,088 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Bishopscote Road: 241 sales since 1995 · £293,039 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
William Austin Junior SchoolPrimary0.2 mi
William Austin Infant SchoolPrimary0.4 mi
Icknield Primary SchoolPrimary0.4 mi
Icknield High SchoolSecondary0.6 miProgress 8 +0.54 · well above average (2023/24)
Denbigh High SchoolSecondary0.9 miProgress 8 +0.80 · well above average (2023/24)
Challney High School for GirlsSecondary1.3 miProgress 8 +0.74 · 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.

10.4
crimes a month
114
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 36% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01015782, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Bishopscote Road

How this home sits against its street.

111
graded homes
59.1
average score
D
most common grade
-5.1
this home vs street
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