70 Derwent Road, Leighton Buzzard LU7 2XT

Detached house · Built 1983-1990 · 183 m² · Owner-Occupied · 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£7142.0 yrs+3.0 pts · reaches C
Solar water heating(optional, beyond C)£6,000 – £0£5550+ yrs+2.3 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels(optional, beyond C)£8,000 – £0£6650+ yrs+2.7 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

£2,097
per year at grade D
£1,904
per year at grade C

The full plan saves £71 a year — a 2.4% annual return on £3,000.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2018, states £1,347 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

13 April 2018£577,500
13 July 1999£160,000
3 October 1996£124,950

Estimated today: £677,935 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Derwent Road: 107 sales since 1995 · £462,833 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Greenleas SchoolPrimary0.1 mi
Southcott Lower SchoolPrimary0.4 mi
Linslade Lower SchoolPrimary0.7 mi
Cedars Upper SchoolSecondary1.1 miProgress 8 -0.11 · average (2023/24)
The Cottesloe SchoolSecondary2.0 miProgress 8 +0.11 · average (2023/24)
Vandyke Upper SchoolSecondary2.3 miProgress 8 +0.01 · 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.

2.8
crimes a month
14
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 43% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01017611, to 2026-03. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Derwent Road

How this home sits against its street.

45
graded homes
65.9
average score
D
most common grade
+2.1
this home vs street
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