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Off‑Gas Grant

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

£9,000 heat pump grant in Braintree

4,930 oil and 338 LPG heated homes in Braintree sit off the gas grid, 10.3% of local properties.

How Braintree compares

More off-grid than most

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

Least off-grid Most off-grid

10% of homes here run on oil or LPG, against 4% across England and Wales. That ranks Braintree 57 of 318 councils for off-grid heating.

How Braintree heats its homes

Oil Qualifies 4,930
LPG Qualifies 338
Electric only Usually not 7,725

Of 51,022 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 Braintree

660 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 Braintree

Districts that sit mostly or wholly inside Braintree.

DistrictPost townOilLPGShare
CM3 Chelmsford 2,923 463 20.4%
CO6 Colchester 2,192 118 25.6%
CO9 Halstead 1,455 128 17.7%
CM7 Braintree 1,260 72 7.9%
CO5 Colchester 1,188 60 12.7%
CB9 Haverhill 574 19 5.4%
CM77 Braintree 498 23 11.1%
CO8 Bures 184 9 27.7%

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