8 Birdswood Drive, Woking, GU21 8UG
About 8 Birdswood Drive
8 Birdswood Drive is a three-bedroom detached house in Woking (GU21 8UG). It has a recorded floor area of 90 m² (around 969 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1967-1975 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (February 2021) shows a D (score 56), a step below the typical UK home. The recommended improvements would push it to C (score 74). Our model identifies extension potential, subject to local planning policy.
3 planning records sit against the property, 3 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include an extension and partial demolition, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. At 90 m² it's 29.1% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (127 m² median across 4 EPCs). It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 75% of similar EPCs). On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£561/sq ft) was about 145.4% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Sold September 2021 for £543,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.
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Valuation
against the asking price
Risks
planning & flood
Sold prices
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Trends
the local market
What this property has
Inside
- Bedrooms3
- Bathrooms1
Outside
- Private gardenRear
- GarageYes
Building
- Extension potentialPossible
Energy performance
EPC Rating
Planning history
Planning history includes recorded demolition works, indicating a major rebuild phase at this address.
- Oct 2021ConditionsIn report
Details pursuant to condition 5 (Drainage) to PLAN/2021/0352 (Erection of part two storey, part single storey side and rear extensions following demolition of existing garage and shed).
- Agent
- Springwheel Associates
- Documents
- 10 docs on file
- Reference
- COND/2021/0183
- May 2021DemolitionFullIn report
Extension: Part single, part two storey · Side and rear of property
Erection of part two storey, part single storey side and rear extensions following demolition of existing garage and shed.
Extension- Documents
- 16 docs on file
- Reference
- PLAN/2021/0352
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Sales history & valuation
The latest sale landed in the post-pandemic price surge — useful context when reading the figure.
£590,000
Modelled from EPC, postcode comparables.
£543,000
Recorded with HM Land Registry.
Sales timeline
16 September 2021Most recent
£543,000
Median price across the last 5 sales in GU21 8UG: £360,000 (2024–2005).
Nearby sales in GU21 8UG
Everything we know about 8 Birdswood Drive, in one report
What it's really worth, what could be wrong, and the planning, sales and area data in full.
What we flagged
- Larger development activity nearby

Versus other Birdswood Drive homes
8 Birdswood Drive outperforms the street on price per m² by a wide margin.
Price per m²
£6,033
Street avg £2,672
Floor Area
90 m²
Street avg 119 m²
Habitable Rooms
5 rooms
Street avg 5 rooms
CO₂ Emissions
4.8 t/year
Street avg 5.3 t/year
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The neighbourhood at a glance
Daytime road noise here sits well below conversation level — a quiet pocket of the postcode.
Crime
7/mo
Steady year-on-year across the wider district.
Nearest stop
0.1 km
Hermitage Estate Shops — bus stop.
Closest school
0.2 km
The Hermitage Junior School. 17 schools nearby.
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Road noise across the postcode

Daytime· 07:00 – 23:00
46.6dB

Night-time· 23:00 – 07:00
38.4dB