20 Carnoustie Drive, Biddenham, Bedford MK40 4FF

Detached house · Built 1991-1995 · 350 m² · Owner-Occupied · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

DB for £35,300 · £17,650 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Cavity wall insulation£500 – £1,500£2923.4 yrs+4.5 pts
Band A condensing boiler£2,200 – £3,000£24010.8 yrs+3.7 pts
Low energy lighting£200£1711.7 yrs+0.3 pts
Floor insulation£4,000 – £6,000£39112.8 yrs+6.0 pts · reaches C
Solar photovoltaic panels£5,000 – £8,000£36217.9 yrs+5.6 pts
Wind turbine£15,000 – £25,000£32450+ yrs+5.0 pts · reaches B

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

£4,476
per year at grade D
£2,848
per year at grade B

The full plan saves £1,628 a year — a 4.6% annual return on £35,300.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2016, states £3,144 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

21 December 2012£684,000

Estimated today: £1,286,806 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Carnoustie Drive: 23 sales since 1995

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
St James' CofE AcademyPrimary0.4 mi
Great Denham Primary SchoolPrimary0.4 mi
St Francis of Assisi Catholic Primary and Pre-SchoolPrimary0.9 mi
Biddenham International School and Sports CollegeSecondary0.7 miProgress 8 +0.12 · average (2023/24)
Kempston AcademySecondary1.8 miProgress 8 -0.09 · average (2023/24)
Daubeney AcademySecondary2.0 miProgress 8 +0.02 · 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.

9.7
crimes a month
97
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 35% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01034414, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.