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Get started12 The Plovers is a two-bedroom detached house in St. Lawrence, Southminster, Southminster (CM0 7PE). It has a recorded floor area of 45 m² (around 484 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1983-1990 and council tax band A. The latest certificate (September 2015) shows an F (score 33), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 91), a 4-band jump. Main heating runs on to be used only when there is no heating/hot. The latest certificate is from September 2015, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.
Sale prices here have outpaced England HPI: 6.8% per year against 0% for the wider region. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£510/sq ft) was about 104.5% above the typical sold price in the postcode. On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. One planning record on file: change of use to residential approved in 2016. Past consents include change of use to residential, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Most recent transfer: December 2021 at £247,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.
12 The Plovers sits at the bottom of the postcode for energy efficiency — meaningful headroom to improve.
This certificate is over 10 years old and is no longer valid.Expired 14 Sept 2025
Change of use from holiday home to residential dwelling
The latest sale landed in the post-pandemic price surge — useful context when reading the figure.
£271,000
Modelled from EPC, postcode comparables and a sale-price growth of 6.8% per year over 6 years.
£247,000
Growth on file: 6.8% per year over 6 years.
12 The Plovers is notably below the street on epc rating.
Price per m²
£5,489
Street avg £3,001
Floor Area
45 m²
Street avg 55 m²
Habitable Rooms
3 rooms
Street avg 3 rooms
Daytime road noise here sits well below conversation level — a quiet pocket of the postcode.
Crime
3/mo
Steady year-on-year across the wider district.
Nearest stop
0.4 km

Daytime· 07:00 – 23:00
42.7dB

20 December 2021Most recent
£247,000
+45.3%over 5 years28 April 2016
£170,000
Median price across the last 5 sales in CM0 7PE: £248,000 (2025–2019).
CO₂ Emissions
3.9 t/year
Street avg 4.3 t/year
CM0 7HL
Dairy Stores — bus stop.
Night-time· 23:00 – 07:00
35.6dB
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