8 Hockley Drive, Romford RM2 6NL

Detached house · Built 1930-1949 · 192 m² · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

FD for £18,964 · £9,482 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Hot water cylinder insulation£23 – £300typical£4400.4 yrs+6.6 pts
Heating controls£400typical£1872.1 yrs+2.8 pts · reaches E
Low energy lighting£30 – £75typical£232.3 yrs+0.3 pts
Band A condensing boiler£2,600typical£3168.2 yrs+4.7 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels£4,500 – £9,000typical£47614.2 yrs+7.1 pts
Solid wall insulation£9,000typical£55616.2 yrs+8.4 pts · reaches D

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

£4,483
per year at grade F
£2,484
per year at grade D

The full plan saves £1,999 a year — a 10.5% annual return on £18,964.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2010, states £2,795 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

22 July 2011£705,000
28 October 1998£249,000

Estimated today: £1,454,497 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Hockley Drive: 11 sales since 1995 · £1,077,500 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Ardleigh Green Junior SchoolPrimary0.7 mi
Ardleigh Green Infant SchoolPrimary0.7 mi
Gidea Park Primary SchoolPrimary0.8 mi
The Royal Liberty SchoolSecondary0.4 miProgress 8 +0.47 · above average (2023/24)
Marshalls Park AcademySecondary1.0 miProgress 8 -0.26 · below average (2023/24)
Redden Court SchoolSecondary1.1 miProgress 8 +0.33 · above 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.

6.8
crimes a month
61
in the last 12 months
Anti-social behaviour
most common · 26% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01002337, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Hockley Drive

How this home sits against its street.

7
graded homes
43.9
average score
E
most common grade
-13.9
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.