7 Poplar Street, Lofthouse, Wakefield WF3 3HL

Semi-Detached house · Built before 1900 · 136 m² · Owner-Occupied · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

DC for £7,500 · £7,500 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Floor insulation£5,000 – £10,000£16545.6 yrs+3.7 pts · reaches C
Solid wall insulation(optional, beyond C)£7,500 – £11,000£17850+ yrs+4.0 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels(optional, beyond C)£8,000 – £10,000£15250+ yrs+3.4 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

£1,978
per year at grade D
£1,483
per year at grade C

The full plan saves £165 a year — a 2.2% annual return on £7,500.

Energy costs as modelled on the certificate, not a bill.

Sold prices

9 May 2003£136,000
18 August 2000£69,500
23 August 1996£53,950

Estimated today: £347,990 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Poplar Street: 3 sales since 1995

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Outwood Primary Academy Lofthouse GatePrimary0.3 mi
Rooks Nest AcademyPrimary0.5 mi
Outwood Primary Academy Ledger LanePrimary0.6 mi
Outwood Grange AcademySecondary0.9 miProgress 8 -0.13 · average (2023/24)
Rodillian AcademySecondary1.0 miProgress 8 +0.24 · above average (2023/24)
Outwood Academy City FieldsSecondary2.1 miProgress 8 +0.08 · 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.

7
crimes a month
56
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 36% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01011894, 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.