12 Orkney Close, Stewkley, Leighton Buzzard LU7 0JF

Detached house · Built 1976-1982 · 123 m² · Owner-Occupied · Warm air, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

DB for £16,375 · £8,188 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Solar photovoltaic panels£3,500 – £5,500£9646.9 yrs+4.2 pts · reaches C
Floor insulation£4,000 – £6,000£10448.2 yrs+4.6 pts
Warm air unit replacement£1,250 – £2,500£3750+ yrs+1.6 pts
Solar water heating£4,000 – £6,000£8050+ yrs+3.6 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

£1,591
per year at grade D
£1,274
per year at grade B

The full plan saves £317 a year — a 1.9% annual return on £16,375.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2022, states £937 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

24 October 2023£560,000
2 July 2010£335,000
20 June 2007£344,000

Estimated today: £580,140 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Orkney Close: 25 sales since 1995 · £523,083 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
St Michael's Church of England Combined SchoolPrimary0.4 mi
Drayton Parslow Village SchoolPrimary2.0 mi
Overstone Combined SchoolPrimary2.6 mi
The Cottesloe SchoolSecondary2.6 miProgress 8 +0.11 · average (2023/24)
Cedars Upper SchoolSecondary3.8 miProgress 8 -0.11 · average (2023/24)
Lift Sir Herbert LeonSecondary4.1 miProgress 8 -1.02 · 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.

5.5
crimes a month
55
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 44% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01017716, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Orkney Close

How this home sits against its street.

8
graded homes
65.9
average score
D
most common grade
+2.1
this home vs street
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