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Off‑Gas Grant

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

£9,000 heat pump grant in Breckland

11,161 oil and 595 LPG heated homes in Breckland sit off the gas grid, 23.8% of local properties.

How Breckland compares

Heavily off the gas grid

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

Least off-grid Most off-grid

24% of homes here run on oil or LPG, against 4% across England and Wales. That ranks Breckland 11 of 318 councils for off-grid heating.

How Breckland heats its homes

Oil Qualifies 11,161
LPG Qualifies 595
Electric only Usually not 9,246

Of 49,449 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 Breckland

1,652 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 Breckland

Districts that sit mostly or wholly inside Breckland.

DistrictPost townOilLPGShare
NR20 Dereham 3,280 154 48.8%
PE32 King'S Lynn 3,174 210 61.2%
NR9 Norwich 2,356 148 34.3%
IP22 Diss 2,266 89 29.6%
NR16 Norwich 2,060 102 54.0%
IP27 Brandon 1,741 121 27.8%
IP26 Thetford 1,671 100 57.5%
IP25 Thetford 1,257 85 17.9%
NR17 Attleborough 1,145 66 18.1%
NR19 Dereham 777 31 11.7%
IP24 Thetford 702 43 7.8%
PE37 Swaffham 368 19 7.7%

Other authorities in East of England