40 Sutherland Drive, Newcastle ST5 3NZ

Detached house · Built 1930-1949 · 166 m² · Owner-Occupied · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

EC for £8,600 · £4,300 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Floor insulation£800 – £1,200£3712.7 yrs+7.5 pts · reaches D
Cavity wall insulation£500 – £1,500£2773.6 yrs+5.6 pts
Low energy lighting£100£166.2 yrs+0.3 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels£5,000 – £8,000£34418.9 yrs+6.9 pts · reaches C
Double glazing(optional, beyond C)£3,300 – £6,500£13436.5 yrs+2.7 pts

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

£3,010
per year at grade E
£1,867
per year at grade C

The full plan saves £1,009 a year — a 11.7% annual return on £8,600.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2017, states £1,993 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

11 August 2017£420,000

Estimated today: £661,910 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Sutherland Drive: 58 sales since 1995 · £520,038 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Seabridge Primary SchoolPrimary0.2 mi
Langdale Primary SchoolPrimary0.3 mi
Our Lady and St Werburgh's Catholic Primary SchoolPrimary0.5 mi
Newcastle AcademySecondary0.8 miProgress 8 -1.19 · well below average (2023/24)
Clayton Hall AcademySecondary0.9 miProgress 8 0.00 · average (2023/24)
St John Fisher Catholic CollegeSecondary1.4 miProgress 8 -0.40 · below 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.

3.3
crimes a month
26
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 69% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01029606, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Sutherland Drive

How this home sits against its street.

29
graded homes
57
average score
D
most common grade
-4.0
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.