45 Cotefield Drive, Leighton Buzzard LU7 3DS

Detached house · Built 1967-1975 · 150 m² · Rented (Private) · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

DC for £4,500 · £4,500 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Solar photovoltaic panels£3,500 – £5,500£7550+ yrs+4.3 pts · reaches C
Floor insulation(optional, beyond C)£4,000 – £6,000£8150+ yrs+4.7 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

£2,088
per year at grade D
£1,932
per year at grade C

The full plan saves £75 a year — a 1.7% annual return on £4,500.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2021, states £1,300 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

27 November 2019£500,000
3 October 2011£294,750
15 March 2006£297,500

Estimated today: £604,953 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Cotefield Drive: 195 sales since 1995 · £504,082 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Heathwood Lower SchoolPrimaryunder 0.1 mi
Dovery AcademyPrimary0.1 mi
The Rushmere Park AcademyPrimary0.7 mi
Vandyke Upper SchoolSecondary0.6 miProgress 8 +0.01 · average (2023/24)
Cedars Upper SchoolSecondary2.0 miProgress 8 -0.11 · average (2023/24)
The Cottesloe SchoolSecondary3.9 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.

8
crimes a month
80
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 29% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01017606, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Cotefield Drive

How this home sits against its street.

84
graded homes
65.5
average score
D
most common grade
+0.5
this home vs street
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