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Off‑Gas Grant

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

£9,000 heat pump grant in East Cambridgeshire

4,568 oil and 307 LPG heated homes in East Cambridgeshire sit off the gas grid, 15.5% of local properties.

How East Cambridgeshire compares

Heavily off the gas grid

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

Least off-grid Most off-grid

16% of homes here run on oil or LPG, against 4% across England and Wales. That ranks East Cambridgeshire 27 of 318 councils for off-grid heating.

How East Cambridgeshire heats its homes

Oil Qualifies 4,568
LPG Qualifies 307
Electric only Usually not 4,733

Of 31,373 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 East Cambridgeshire

823 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 East Cambridgeshire

Districts that sit mostly or wholly inside East Cambridgeshire.

DistrictPost townOilLPGShare
CB8 Newmarket 2,909 315 25.0%
CB6 Ely 1,974 147 15.2%
CB7 Ely 755 103 7.7%
CB25 Cambridge 762 52 13.1%

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