148 Oakley Road, Luton LU4 9QA

Detached house · Built 1950-1966 · 133 m² · Owner-Occupied · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

DC for £1,000 · £1,000 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Floor insulation£800 – £1,200£5418.4 yrs+4.1 pts · reaches C
Solar water heating(optional, beyond C)£4,000 – £6,000£4250+ yrs+3.2 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels(optional, beyond C)£5,000 – £8,000£5050+ yrs+3.8 pts

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

£1,586
per year at grade D
£1,439
per year at grade C

The full plan saves £54 a year — a 5.4% annual return on £1,000.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2016, states £1,104 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

21 August 2024£530,000
30 August 2019£385,000
19 December 1997£95,000

Estimated today: £566,455 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Oakley Road: 225 sales since 1995 · £335,916 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Beechwood Primary SchoolPrimary0.1 mi
Downside Primary SchoolPrimary0.6 mi
Leagrave Primary SchoolPrimary0.6 mi
Challney High School for GirlsSecondary0.3 miProgress 8 +0.74 · well above average (2023/24)
Challney High School for BoysSecondary0.4 miProgress 8 +0.56 · well above average (2023/24)
The Chalk Hills AcademySecondary1.4 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.

12
crimes a month
132
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 37% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01015750, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Oakley Road

How this home sits against its street.

117
graded homes
60.8
average score
D
most common grade
+7.2
this home vs street
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