3 Heather Drive, Colchester, CO3 4AH

3 Heather Drive is a four-bedroom detached house in Colchester (CO3 4AH). It has a recorded floor area of 174 m² (around 1873 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1950-1966 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (September 2021) shows an E (score 45), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The rating has held steady at E across 2 certificates since February 2011. Between certificates, roof efficiency dropped from Poor to Very Poor and hot-water efficiency dropped from Very Good to Good. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 78), a 2-band jump. Other recorded features include a conservatory and attached land beyond the plot.

At 174 m² the property is well over the postcode median (69 m² across 5 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£286/sq ft) was about 18.5% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Most recent transfer: April 2022 at £535,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.