8 Meadway, Leighton Buzzard LU7 3UY

Detached flat · Built 1976-1982 · 47 m² · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

CB for £3,775 · £3,775 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Loft insulation£225typical£673.4 yrs+2.8 pts
Cavity wall insulation£1,000typical£1059.5 yrs+4.5 pts
Band A condensing boiler£2,500 – £2,600typical£8629.6 yrs+3.7 pts · reaches B

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

£828
per year at grade C
£570
per year at grade B

The full plan saves £258 a year — a 6.8% annual return on £3,775.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2010, states £511 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

28 August 2018£159,000
27 October 2000£57,950
3 March 1999£39,000
31 August 1995£33,000

Estimated today: £165,497 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Meadway: 52 sales since 1995 · £251,133 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Beaudesert Lower SchoolPrimary0.4 mi
The Rushmere Park AcademyPrimary0.4 mi
Clipstone Brook Lower SchoolPrimary0.7 mi
Vandyke Upper SchoolSecondary0.3 miProgress 8 +0.01 · average (2023/24)
Cedars Upper SchoolSecondary1.7 miProgress 8 -0.11 · average (2023/24)
The Cottesloe SchoolSecondary3.8 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.

6.7
crimes a month
47
in the last 12 months
Vehicle crime
most common · 28% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01017603, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Meadway

How this home sits against its street.

18
graded homes
67.9
average score
D
most common grade
+2.1
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.