8 Gooseberry Hill, Luton LU3 2LA

Detached bungalow · Built 1950-1966 · 63 m² · Owner-Occupied · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

DB for £10,775 · £5,388 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Loft insulation£100 – £350£653.5 yrs+3.8 pts
Floor insulation£800 – £1,200£1367.4 yrs+8.1 pts
Low energy lighting£50£68.4 yrs+0.4 pts · reaches C
Solar photovoltaic panels£3,500 – £5,500£12635.8 yrs+7.5 pts
Solar water heating£4,000 – £6,000£10647.4 yrs+6.3 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

£1,404
per year at grade D
£966
per year at grade B

The full plan saves £438 a year — a 4.1% annual return on £10,775.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2022, states £830 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

24 October 2022£340,000

Estimated today: £338,993 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Gooseberry Hill: 145 sales since 1995 · £309,448 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
The Meads Primary SchoolPrimary0.4 mi
Icknield Primary SchoolPrimary0.4 mi
Warden Hill Infant AcademyPrimary0.4 mi
Icknield High SchoolSecondary0.5 miProgress 8 +0.54 · well above average (2023/24)
Cardinal Newman Catholic School A Specialist Science CollegeSecondary0.8 miProgress 8 +0.38 · above average (2023/24)
Lea Manor High SchoolSecondary0.8 miProgress 8 -0.98 · 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.

17.3
crimes a month
173
in the last 12 months
Shoplifting
most common · 40% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01015748, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Gooseberry Hill

How this home sits against its street.

62
graded homes
64.4
average score
D
most common grade
-7.4
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.