6 Spring Lane, Eight Ash Green, Colchester, CO6 3QE

6 Spring Lane is a three-bedroom detached house in Eight Ash Green, Colchester, Colchester (CO6 3QE). It has a recorded floor area of 95 m² (around 1023 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1950-1966 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (July 2014) shows an F (score 38), near the bottom of the EPC scale. Earlier certificates rated it E (March 2009); the latest reading is one band lower. Between certificates, wall efficiency dropped from Good to Poor and roof efficiency dropped from Average to Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 82), a 4-band jump. Main heating runs on oil. The latest certificate is from July 2014, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

It hasn't traded since July 2010, a hold of 16 years that's notably long for the area. At 95 m² it's 17.4% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (115 m² median across 11 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, 2 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include an extension and a porch, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Today's modelled estimate of £428,000 is 38.1% above the 2010 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£303/sq ft) was about 37.2% above the typical sold price in the postcode.