243 Doncaster Road, Wakefield WF1 5DA

End-Terrace flat · Built 1900-1929 · 34 m² · Rented (private) · Electric storage heaters

Upgrade Plan

EB for £10,298 · £3,433 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Hot water cylinder insulation£15 – £30£2010.1 yrs+6.8 pts
Loft insulation£100 – £350£1122.0 yrs+3.8 pts · reaches D
High-retention storage heaters£900 – £1,200£4632.3 yrs+15.7 pts · reaches C
Solid wall insulation£4,000 – £14,000£25435.5 yrs+8.6 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

£1,573
per year at grade E
£544
per year at grade B

The full plan saves £1,029 a year — a 10.0% annual return on £10,298.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2014, states £809 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

20 September 1995£80,000

Estimated today: £280,284 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Doncaster Road: 117 sales since 1995 · £211,431 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Sandal Magna Community AcademyPrimary0.4 mi
Wakefield St Marys Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary SchoolPrimary0.9 mi
Sandal Castle VA Community Primary SchoolPrimary1.0 mi
St Thomas à Becket Catholic Secondary School, A Voluntary AcademySecondary0.7 miProgress 8 +0.29 · above average (2023/24)
Outwood Academy City FieldsSecondary1.3 miProgress 8 +0.08 · average (2023/24)
Trinity Academy CathedralSecondary1.7 miProgress 8 +0.34 · 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.

39.5
crimes a month
434
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 49% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01011917, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Doncaster Road

How this home sits against its street.

99
graded homes
62.2
average score
D
most common grade
-16.2
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.