45 Carter Drive, Romford RM5 2PH

Semi-Detached house · Built 1900-1929 · 82 m² · Owner-Occupied · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

DB for £25,750 · £12,875 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Floor insulation£5,000 – £10,000£11850+ yrs+4.3 pts · reaches C
Solid wall insulation£7,500 – £11,000£12850+ yrs+4.7 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels£8,000 – £10,000£11050+ yrs+4.0 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

£1,215
per year at grade D
£859
per year at grade B

The full plan saves £356 a year — a 1.4% annual return on £25,750.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2025, states £1,115 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

12 December 2025£500,000
10 August 2007£250,000
16 June 1995£60,000

Estimated today: £513,540 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Carter Drive: 308 sales since 1995 · £405,083 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Clockhouse Primary SchoolPrimary0.2 mi
St Patrick's Catholic Primary SchoolPrimary0.4 mi
Oasis Academy PinewoodPrimary0.6 mi
Bower Park AcademySecondary1.0 miProgress 8 -0.54 · well below average (2023/24)
Marshalls Park AcademySecondary1.4 miProgress 8 -0.26 · below average (2023/24)
The Warren SchoolSecondary1.8 miProgress 8 +0.37 · 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.

8.9
crimes a month
80
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 38% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01002302, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Carter Drive

How this home sits against its street.

144
graded homes
56
average score
D
most common grade
+12.0
this home vs street
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