Flat 4, 72 Chester Road, Watford WD18 0RH

Semi-Detached flat · Built 1900-1929 · 12 m² · Rented (Private) · No system present: electric heaters assumed

Upgrade Plan

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MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Draughtproofing(optional, beyond B)£150 – £250£922.2 yrs+0.6 pts
High-retention storage heaters(optional, beyond B)£400 – £800£2128.6 yrs+1.4 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

£301
per year at grade B
£271
per year at grade B

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

3 June 2014£170,000

Estimated today: £231,569 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Chester Road: 411 sales since 1995 · £353,253 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Chater Infant SchoolPrimary0.1 mi
Chater Junior SchoolPrimary0.1 mi
Laurance Haines SchoolPrimary0.5 mi
Watford Grammar School for BoysSecondary0.4 miProgress 8 +0.72 · well above average (2023/24)
Watford Grammar School for GirlsSecondary0.4 miProgress 8 +0.74 · well above average (2023/24)
Westfield AcademySecondary0.7 miProgress 8 -0.03 · 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.

19.9
crimes a month
219
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 38% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01023899, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Chester Road

How this home sits against its street.

182
graded homes
62.6
average score
D
most common grade
+22.4
this home vs street
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