Flat 5 Thanet House, Explorer Drive, Watford WD18 6GL

Mid-Terrace flat · Built 1991-1995 · 30 m² · Rented (Private) · Electric storage heaters

Upgrade Plan

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MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Low energy lighting(optional, beyond B)£15£113.3 yrs+0.0 pts
High-retention storage heaters(optional, beyond B)£1,200 – £200£5113.8 yrs+2.0 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

£436
per year at grade B
£384
per year at grade B

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2018, states £252 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

14 January 2021£172,000
30 May 2007£130,250
25 April 2003£97,000
22 December 1999£60,000
31 October 1997£39,500
29 June 1995£37,995

Estimated today: £173,118 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Explorer Drive: 160 sales since 1995 · £208,750 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
St Anthony's Catholic Primary SchoolPrimary0.3 mi
Willow Tree Primary SchoolPrimary0.3 mi
Laurance Haines SchoolPrimary0.3 mi
Westfield AcademySecondary0.2 miProgress 8 -0.03 · average (2023/24)
Watford Grammar School for BoysSecondary0.5 miProgress 8 +0.72 · well above average (2023/24)
Watford Grammar School for GirlsSecondary0.8 miProgress 8 +0.74 · well 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.

14.4
crimes a month
158
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 34% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01023863, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Explorer Drive

How this home sits against its street.

39
graded homes
71.2
average score
C
most common grade
+10.8
this home vs street
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