142 Scrub Lane, Benfleet SS7 2JP

Detached house · Built 1950-1966 · 165 m² · Owner-Occupied · Boiler and radiators, LPG

Upgrade Plan

FD for £17,500 · £8,750 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Cavity wall insulation£500 – £1,500£1546.5 yrs+5.4 pts · reaches E
Floor insulation£4,000 – £6,000£20624.3 yrs+7.2 pts
Solar water heating£4,000 – £6,000£16031.3 yrs+5.6 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels£5,000 – £8,000£19134.1 yrs+6.7 pts · reaches D

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

£2,288
per year at grade F
£1,577
per year at grade D

The full plan saves £711 a year — a 4.1% annual return on £17,500.

Energy costs as modelled on the certificate, not a bill. This fuel has too few recent certificates to restate at today's prices.

Sold prices

12 April 2017£445,000
12 January 2007£303,000
6 December 1996£93,000

Estimated today: £571,142 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Scrub Lane: 97 sales since 1995

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Hadleigh Infant and Nursery SchoolPrimary0.2 mi
Hadleigh Junior SchoolPrimary0.4 mi
Westwood AcademyPrimary0.7 mi
Belfairs AcademySecondary1.0 miProgress 8 -0.31 · below average (2023/24)
The DeanesSecondary1.2 miProgress 8 -0.71 · well below average (2023/24)
The King John SchoolSecondary1.2 miProgress 8 +0.19 · 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.

3.4
crimes a month
27
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 59% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01021519, to 2026-05. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Scrub Lane

How this home sits against its street.

52
graded homes
62
average score
D
most common grade
-26.0
this home vs street
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