8 Copper Beech Way, Leighton Buzzard LU7 3BD

Detached house · Built 1967-1975 · 123 m² · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

ED for £3,053 · £3,053 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Heating controls£400typical£547.4 yrs+1.3 pts
Low energy lighting£30 – £75typical£68.1 yrs+0.2 pts
Band A condensing boiler£2,600typical£9128.6 yrs+2.2 pts · reaches D
Solar photovoltaic panels(optional, beyond D)£4,500 – £9,000typical£13749.3 yrs+3.3 pts

Grants verified 20 August 2026. Costs are the register’s indicative ranges, except where marked typical, which this certificate did not price and which are taken instead from comparable homes of the same type. 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

£2,130
per year at grade E
£1,842
per year at grade D

The full plan saves £151 a year — a 4.9% annual return on £3,053.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2011, states £1,337 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

3 September 2020£570,000
10 July 2013£325,000

Estimated today: £662,310 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Copper Beech Way: 24 sales since 1995 · £671,833 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Dovery AcademyPrimary0.1 mi
Heathwood Lower SchoolPrimary0.2 mi
St Leonards CE AcademyPrimary0.8 mi
Vandyke Upper SchoolSecondary0.8 miProgress 8 +0.01 · average (2023/24)
Cedars Upper SchoolSecondary2.0 miProgress 8 -0.11 · average (2023/24)
The Cottesloe SchoolSecondary3.8 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.

6.8
crimes a month
41
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 44% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01017607, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Copper Beech Way

How this home sits against its street.

13
graded homes
67
average score
C
most common grade
-14.0
this home vs street
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