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Off‑Gas Grant

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

£9,000 heat pump grant in South Cambridgeshire

7,047 oil and 589 LPG heated homes in South Cambridgeshire sit off the gas grid, 13.5% of local properties.

How South Cambridgeshire compares

Heavily off the gas grid

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

Least off-grid Most off-grid

13% of homes here run on oil or LPG, against 4% across England and Wales. That ranks South Cambridgeshire 34 of 318 councils for off-grid heating.

How South Cambridgeshire heats its homes

Oil Qualifies 7,047
LPG Qualifies 589
Electric only Usually not 7,913

Of 56,667 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 South Cambridgeshire

1,001 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 South Cambridgeshire

Districts that sit mostly or wholly inside South Cambridgeshire.

DistrictPost townOilLPGShare
SG8 Royston 2,636 291 21.8%
CB23 Cambridge 1,722 101 14.4%
CB21 Cambridge 1,375 95 28.5%
SG19 Sandy 836 70 10.8%
CB10 Saffron Walden 827 30 16.2%
CB25 Cambridge 762 52 13.1%
CB22 Cambridge 598 58 7.5%

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