3 Hydrus Drive, Leighton Buzzard LU7 3UL

Detached house · Built 1976-1982 · 163 m² · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

DC for £10,628 · £10,628 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Loft insulation£225typical£1161.9 yrs+2.4 pts
Low energy lighting£30 – £75typical£114.9 yrs+0.2 pts
Cavity wall insulation£1,000typical£1825.5 yrs+3.7 pts
Band A condensing boiler£2,600typical£15017.3 yrs+3.1 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels£4,500 – £9,000typical£22629.9 yrs+4.6 pts · reaches C

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

£2,194
per year at grade D
£1,509
per year at grade C

The full plan saves £685 a year — a 6.4% annual return on £10,628.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2010, states £1,359 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

25 March 2011£295,000

Estimated today: £564,683 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Hydrus Drive: 38 sales since 1995 · £378,653 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Beaudesert Lower SchoolPrimaryunder 0.1 mi
Leedon Lower SchoolPrimary0.7 mi
The Rushmere Park AcademyPrimary0.7 mi
Vandyke Upper SchoolSecondary0.4 miProgress 8 +0.01 · average (2023/24)
Cedars Upper SchoolSecondary1.9 miProgress 8 -0.11 · average (2023/24)
The Cottesloe SchoolSecondary4.1 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.

7.1
crimes a month
64
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 33% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01017604, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Hydrus Drive

How this home sits against its street.

25
graded homes
62.8
average score
D
most common grade
-3.8
this home vs street
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