7 Brooklands Drive, Leighton Buzzard LU7 3PD

Semi-Detached bungalow · Built 1950-1966 · 60 m² · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

DB for £11,380 · £5,690 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Low energy lighting£30£212.1 yrs+0.2 pts
Floor insulation£800 – £1,200£5717.7 yrs+5.0 pts · reaches C
Wind turbine£1,500 – £4,000£4750+ yrs+4.2 pts
Band A condensing boiler£2,200 – £3,000£3550+ yrs+3.1 pts
Solar water heating£4,000 – £6,000£4450+ yrs+3.9 pts · reaches B
Solar photovoltaic panels(optional, beyond B)£9,000 – £14,000£5250+ yrs+4.6 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

£916
per year at grade D
£679
per year at grade B

The full plan saves £185 a year — a 1.6% annual return on £11,380.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2012, states £541 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

31 January 2013£185,000
28 August 2007£195,000
10 May 2002£117,000
5 October 2001£80,000

Estimated today: £360,318 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Brooklands Drive: 162 sales since 1995 · £339,456 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Leedon Lower SchoolPrimary0.2 mi
Clipstone Brook Lower SchoolPrimary0.3 mi
Beaudesert Lower SchoolPrimary0.5 mi
Vandyke Upper SchoolSecondary0.8 miProgress 8 +0.01 · average (2023/24)
Cedars Upper SchoolSecondary1.5 miProgress 8 -0.11 · average (2023/24)
The Cottesloe SchoolSecondary3.6 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.

4.5
crimes a month
27
in the last 12 months
Vehicle crime
most common · 33% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01017573, to 2026-05. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Brooklands Drive

How this home sits against its street.

85
graded homes
62
average score
D
most common grade
+6.0
this home vs street
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