3 Spinney Avenue, Widnes WA8 8LB

Semi-Detached house · Built 1950-1966 · 87 m² · Owner-Occupied · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

CB for £11,000 · £11,000 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
High-performance doors£2,500 – £500£3542.3 yrs+4.2 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels£3,500 – £5,500£4150+ yrs+4.8 pts
Solar water heating£4,000 – £6,000£3450+ 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

£1,146
per year at grade C
£1,035
per year at grade B

The full plan saves £111 a year — a 1.0% annual return on £11,000.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2023, states £1,570 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

23 July 2025£295,000
28 June 2017£157,000
15 February 2006£142,500
29 April 2005£140,000

Estimated today: £299,015 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Spinney Avenue: 5 sales since 1995

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
St Michael with St Thomas CE Primary SchoolPrimaryunder 0.1 mi
Our Lady of Perpetual Succour Catholic Primary SchoolPrimary0.3 mi
Oakfield Community Primary SchoolPrimary0.4 mi
Ormiston Chadwick AcademySecondary0.9 miProgress 8 -0.23 · below average (2023/24)
Saints Peter and Paul Catholic High SchoolSecondary1.7 miProgress 8 -0.61 · well below average (2023/24)
Wade Deacon High SchoolSecondary1.9 miProgress 8 +0.17 · 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.

5.3
crimes a month
48
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 58% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01012389, 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.