74 Johnson Drive, Leighton Buzzard LU7 4AY

Mid-Terrace house · Built 2007-2011 · 112 m² · Owner-Occupied · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

CB for £4,500 · £4,500 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Solar photovoltaic panels£3,500 – £5,500£4050+ yrs+5.4 pts · reaches B
Solar water heating(optional, beyond B)£4,000 – £6,000£3350+ 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

£997
per year at grade C
£924
per year at grade B

The full plan saves £40 a year — a 0.9% annual return on £4,500.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2025, states £829 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

30 September 2016£315,000
29 April 2016£313,600
15 December 2011£234,950

Estimated today: £405,903 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Johnson Drive: 325 sales since 1995 · £253,648 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Leedon Lower SchoolPrimary0.6 mi
Clipstone Brook Lower SchoolPrimary0.7 mi
Pulford CofE VA Lower SchoolPrimary1.1 mi
Cedars Upper SchoolSecondary1.3 miProgress 8 -0.11 · average (2023/24)
Vandyke Upper SchoolSecondary1.6 miProgress 8 +0.01 · average (2023/24)
The Cottesloe SchoolSecondary3.4 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.

8.2
crimes a month
74
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 43% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01033833, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Johnson Drive

How this home sits against its street.

180
graded homes
78.6
average score
C
most common grade
+0.4
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.