36 Plantation Road, Leighton Buzzard LU7 3HR

End-Terrace house · Built 1900-1929 · 57 m² · Owner-Occupied · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

DB for £14,075 · £7,038 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Flat roof insulation£850 – £1,500£9013.1 yrs+4.7 pts
Floor insulation£800 – £6,000£11828.8 yrs+6.2 pts · reaches C
Solar photovoltaic panels£3,500 – £5,500£10941.2 yrs+5.7 pts
Solar water heating£4,000 – £6,000£9250+ yrs+4.8 pts · reaches B
Solid wall insulation(optional, beyond B)£4,000 – £14,000£12850+ yrs+6.7 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

£1,250
per year at grade D
£714
per year at grade B

The full plan saves £408 a year — a 2.9% annual return on £14,075.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2025, states £1,060 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

29 September 2025£278,000
28 June 2021£250,000
20 May 2015£199,200
15 June 2009£130,000
15 June 2009£130,000
18 June 2004£129,995
24 November 1999£69,995
16 February 1999£60,000
13 December 1996£49,500

Estimated today: £278,542 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Plantation Road: 273 sales since 1995 · £468,512 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
The Rushmere Park AcademyPrimary0.3 mi
The Mary Bassett Lower SchoolPrimary0.5 mi
Dovery AcademyPrimary0.6 mi
Vandyke Upper SchoolSecondary0.8 miProgress 8 +0.01 · average (2023/24)
Cedars Upper SchoolSecondary1.4 miProgress 8 -0.11 · average (2023/24)
The Cottesloe SchoolSecondary3.3 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.

5.8
crimes a month
58
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 36% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01017608, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Plantation Road

How this home sits against its street.

102
graded homes
61
average score
D
most common grade
0.0
this home vs street
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