685 Dunstable Road, Luton LU4 0DS

Detached bungalow · Built 1930-1949 · 75 m² · Owner-Occupied · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

EC for £23,950 · £11,975 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Low energy lighting£50£510.2 yrs+0.3 pts
Floor insulation£800 – £6,000£11230.3 yrs+6.3 pts · reaches D
Solar water heating£4,000 – £6,000£8750+ yrs+4.9 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels£5,000 – £8,000£10450+ yrs+5.8 pts
Solid wall insulation£4,000 – £14,000£12250+ yrs+6.8 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

£1,737
per year at grade E
£1,307
per year at grade C

The full plan saves £430 a year — a 1.8% annual return on £23,950.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2018, states £1,116 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

11 October 2024£250,000
5 December 1997£58,500

Estimated today: £262,747 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Dunstable Road: 687 sales since 1995 · £319,707 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
The Ferrars AcademyPrimary0.5 mi
Ferrars Junior SchoolPrimary0.5 mi
Leagrave Primary SchoolPrimary0.6 mi
Challney High School for BoysSecondary0.2 miProgress 8 +0.56 · well above average (2023/24)
Challney High School for GirlsSecondary0.5 miProgress 8 +0.74 · well above average (2023/24)
The Chalk Hills AcademySecondary0.9 miProgress 8 -0.02 · 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.

26.6
crimes a month
293
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 57% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01015713, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Dunstable Road

How this home sits against its street.

626
graded homes
63
average score
D
most common grade
-14.0
this home vs street
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