11 Lovent Drive, Leighton Buzzard LU7 3LR

Detached house · Built 1983-1990 · 114 m² · Owner-Occupied · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

DC for £12,100 · £12,100 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Band A condensing boiler£2,200 – £3,000£7435.3 yrs+3.0 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels£3,500 – £5,500£11140.5 yrs+4.5 pts
Floor insulation£4,000 – £6,000£12041.7 yrs+4.8 pts · reaches C
Solar water heating(optional, beyond C)£4,000 – £6,000£9350+ yrs+3.7 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

£1,983
per year at grade D
£1,585
per year at grade C

The full plan saves £305 a year — a 2.5% annual return on £12,100.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2024, states £2,079 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

3 May 2012£310,000
20 September 2007£307,000
10 December 2004£243,000
27 July 2001£190,000

Estimated today: £587,911 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Lovent Drive: 37 sales since 1995 · £417,500 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Clipstone Brook Lower SchoolPrimary0.2 mi
Pulford CofE VA Lower SchoolPrimary0.4 mi
The Mary Bassett Lower SchoolPrimary0.5 mi
Cedars Upper SchoolSecondary1.0 miProgress 8 -0.11 · average (2023/24)
Vandyke Upper SchoolSecondary1.0 miProgress 8 +0.01 · average (2023/24)
The Cottesloe SchoolSecondary3.2 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.

58.7
crimes a month
646
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 26% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01017555, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Lovent Drive

How this home sits against its street.

12
graded homes
66.1
average score
D
most common grade
-5.1
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.