42 Orbit Close, Chatham ME5 9NF

Mid-Terrace house · Built 1983-1990 · 55 m² · Electric storage heaters

Upgrade Plan

DC for £16,425 · £16,425 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Loft insulation£225typical£1812.4 yrs+0.6 pts
High-retention storage heaters£1,400 – £2,000typical£7522.7 yrs+2.4 pts
Wind turbine£2,750typical£3150+ yrs+1.0 pts
Solar water heating£5,000typical£2950+ yrs+0.9 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels£4,500 – £9,000typical£3550+ yrs+1.1 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

£1,306
per year at grade D
£1,117
per year at grade C

The full plan saves £189 a year — a 1.2% annual return on £16,425.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2010, states £532 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

29 June 2012£137,500
11 August 2006£135,000

Estimated today: £230,638 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Orbit Close: 122 sales since 1995 · £227,397 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Tunbury Primary SchoolPrimary0.4 mi
Swingate Primary SchoolPrimary0.9 mi
Walderslade Primary SchoolPrimary0.9 mi
Greenacre SchoolSecondary1.5 miAttainment 8 29.8 · no Progress 8 published
Walderslade SchoolSecondary1.6 miAttainment 8 29.9 · no Progress 8 published
Holcombe Grammar SchoolSecondary2.6 miProgress 8 +0.15 · 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.

5
crimes a month
45
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 42% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01034990, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Orbit Close

How this home sits against its street.

38
graded homes
57.4
average score
D
most common grade
+5.6
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.