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Off‑Gas Grant

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

£9,000 heat pump grant in Cheshire East

5,588 oil and 2,122 LPG heated homes in Cheshire East sit off the gas grid, 5.5% of local properties.

How Cheshire East compares

Typical for England and Wales

Cheshire East 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 Cheshire East 90 of 318 councils for off-grid heating.

How Cheshire East heats its homes

Oil Qualifies 5,588
LPG Qualifies 2,122
Electric only Usually not 11,622

Of 140,051 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 Cheshire East

1,023 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 Cheshire East

Districts that sit mostly or wholly inside Cheshire East.

DistrictPost townOilLPGShare
CW6 Tarporley 1,163 404 35.9%
CW5 Nantwich 1,134 412 12.8%
CW3 Crewe 835 314 36.5%
SY14 Malpas 803 148 41.3%
SK11 Macclesfield 685 155 6.0%
WA16 Knutsford 571 259 10.0%
CW11 Sandbach 421 161 6.0%
CW4 Crewe 152 51 5.8%

Other authorities in North West