236 Bideford Green, Leighton Buzzard LU7 2TT

Semi-Detached house · Built 1967-1975 · 78 m² · Unknown · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

DC for £3,000 · £3,000 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Floor insulation£6,000 – £0£4850+ yrs+5.2 pts · reaches C
Solar water heating(optional, beyond C)£6,000 – £0£3750+ yrs+4.0 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels(optional, beyond C)£8,000 – £0£4550+ yrs+4.8 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

£1,212
per year at grade D
£1,082
per year at grade C

The full plan saves £48 a year — a 1.6% annual return on £3,000.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2019, states £762 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

19 July 2019£323,000
12 August 2003£156,500

Estimated today: £403,073 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Bideford Green: 890 sales since 1995 · £340,189 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Southcott Lower SchoolPrimary0.2 mi
Greenleas SchoolPrimary0.2 mi
Linslade Lower SchoolPrimary0.4 mi
Cedars Upper SchoolSecondary1.1 miProgress 8 -0.11 · average (2023/24)
Vandyke Upper SchoolSecondary2.0 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.

3.5
crimes a month
7
in the last 12 months
Criminal damage and arson
most common · 71% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01017612, to 2026-05. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Bideford Green

How this home sits against its street.

328
graded homes
63.4
average score
D
most common grade
+2.6
this home vs street
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