The Driveway, Richmond Cottage, Dalby Avenue, Bushby, Leicester, LE7 9RE

The Driveway is a semi-detached house in Bushby, Leicester, Leicester (LE7 9RE). It has a recorded floor area of 101 m² (around 1087 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1900-1929 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (May 2022) shows an E (score 52), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 83), a 3-band jump.

At 101 m² it sits well below the postcode median (190 m² across 19 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 84% of similar EPCs). 2 planning records sit against the property, 2 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include an extension and a garage conversion, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Today's modelled estimate of £354,000 is 11% above the 2022 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£293/sq ft) was about 42.1% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Most recent transfer: November 2022 at £319,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.