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Get started1 Florence Gardens is a semi-detached house in Benfleet (SS7 2PH). It has a recorded floor area of 73 m² (around 786 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1930-1949 and council tax band B. The latest certificate (March 2020) shows an E (score 54), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 74), a 2-band jump.
At 73 m² the property is well over the postcode median (43 m² across 14 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 79% of similar EPCs). One historical planning record sits against the property in 2021.
Recommended upgrades on file would lift this property by multiple EPC bands.
T1 (Hazel) - Fell T2 (Yew) - Crown reduction by 1-2m, cutting back to a side branch and leaving a flowing branch line without stumps. Crown lift by 2.4m. Remove basal and epicormic to crown break.
1 Florence Gardens has no Land Registry sales on file, suggesting it has stayed in the same hands since registration began.
£274,000
Modelled from EPC, postcode comparables.
That can mean the property has never traded since the registry began publishing in 1995, was a new build that hasn't been registered yet, or is held in the same hands long-term.
On co₂ emissions, 1 Florence Gardens runs well behind the street norm.
EPC Rating
54 (E)
Street avg 59 (D)
Floor Area
73 m²
Street avg 52 m²
CO₂ Emissions
4.5 t/year
Daytime road noise here sits well below conversation level — a quiet pocket of the postcode.
Crime
2/mo
Steady year-on-year across the wider district.
Nearest stop
0.2 km

Daytime· 07:00 – 23:00
49.0dB

Median price across the last 2 sales in SS7 2PH: £247,500 (2025–2015).
Street avg 3.1 t/year
Habitable Rooms
3 rooms
Street avg 3 rooms
The Memorial — bus stop.
Closest school
0.6 km
Westwood Academy. 13 schools nearby.
Night-time· 23:00 – 07:00
40.2dB