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Off‑Gas Grant

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

£9,000 heat pump grant in Colchester

3,546 oil and 233 LPG heated homes in Colchester sit off the gas grid, 5.8% of local properties.

How Colchester compares

Typical for England and Wales

Colchester sits close to the England and Wales figure for off-grid heating.

Least off-grid Most off-grid

6% of homes here run on oil or LPG, against 4% across England and Wales. That ranks Colchester 87 of 318 councils for off-grid heating.

How Colchester heats its homes

Oil Qualifies 3,546
LPG Qualifies 233
Electric only Usually not 9,744

Of 65,479 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 Colchester

372 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 Colchester

Districts that sit mostly or wholly inside Colchester.

DistrictPost townOilLPGShare
CO6 Colchester 2,192 118 25.6%
CO7 Colchester 1,182 114 10.7%
CO5 Colchester 1,188 60 12.7%
CO8 Bures 184 9 27.7%

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