11 Allendale Drive, Copford, Colchester, CO6 1BP

11 Allendale Drive is a three-bedroom semi-detached house in Copford, Colchester, Colchester (CO6 1BP). It has a recorded floor area of 85 m² (around 915 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1950-1966 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (August 2016) shows an E (score 52), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. Earlier certificates rated it D (August 2010); the latest reading is one band lower. Between certificates, window efficiency went from Average to Good; while roof efficiency dropped from Good to Poor and hot-water efficiency dropped from Good to Average. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 86), a 3-band jump.

At 85 m² it's 22.7% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (110 m² median across 25 EPCs). On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. 2 planning records sit against the property, 1 approved, 1 refused. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Across 2002–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 6.9% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£437/sq ft) was about 43.1% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Most recent transfer: May 2022 at £400,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.