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Off‑Gas Grant

Where the £9,000 off-gas grant applies, postcode by postcode

£9,000 heat pump grant in Babergh

5,729 oil and 418 LPG heated homes in Babergh sit off the gas grid, 19.4% of local properties.

How Babergh compares

Heavily off the gas grid

Oil and LPG heating is far more common in Babergh than across England and Wales, so the £9,000 uplift applies to more homes here.

Least off-grid Most off-grid

19% of homes here run on oil or LPG, against 4% across England and Wales. That ranks Babergh 19 of 318 councils for off-grid heating.

How Babergh heats its homes

Oil Qualifies 5,729
LPG Qualifies 418
Electric only Usually not 5,254

Of 31,703 properties with a current certificate.

What the grant is worth here

£9,000 towards an air source heat pump for an eligible off-gas property. A home on the gas grid gets £7,500, so being off the grid is worth £1,500 more.

Eligible off-gas-grid properties. The installer must be MCS-certified and applies on the owner's behalf. Landlords are eligible.

Rented property in Babergh

728 of the oil and LPG heated homes here are privately rented. Landlords are eligible for the grant, and these properties also face the EPC C deadline in 2030.

Postcode districts in Babergh

Districts that sit mostly or wholly inside Babergh.

DistrictPost townOilLPGShare
CO10 Sudbury 2,358 104 14.1%
CO6 Colchester 2,192 118 25.6%
IP29 Bury St. Edmunds 1,819 150 72.2%
IP30 Bury St. Edmunds 1,585 66 30.1%
IP9 Ipswich 1,259 109 37.0%
IP7 Ipswich 1,224 119 23.4%
CO7 Colchester 1,182 114 10.7%
IP8 Ipswich 609 56 16.2%
CO11 Manningtree 358 24 7.2%
CO8 Bures 184 9 27.7%

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