30 Orchard Drive, Leighton Buzzard LU7 2PL

Detached house · Built 1967-1975 · 127 m² · Owner-Occupied · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

DC for £9,000 · £9,000 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Solar photovoltaic panels£8,000 – £10,000£0+4.0 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

£1,826
per year at grade D

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2026, states £1,671 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

30 June 2006£310,000
10 April 2006£250,000
6 October 1995£79,000

Estimated today: £608,145 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Orchard Drive: 41 sales since 1995 · £410,411 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Linslade Lower SchoolPrimary0.4 mi
Southcott Lower SchoolPrimary0.5 mi
Pulford CofE VA Lower SchoolPrimary0.7 mi
Cedars Upper SchoolSecondary0.5 miProgress 8 -0.11 · average (2023/24)
Vandyke Upper SchoolSecondary1.9 miProgress 8 +0.01 · average (2023/24)
The Cottesloe SchoolSecondary2.2 miProgress 8 +0.11 · 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.

4
crimes a month
20
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 45% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01017614, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Orchard Drive

How this home sits against its street.

17
graded homes
57.2
average score
D
most common grade
+10.8
this home vs street
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