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Off‑Gas Grant

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

£9,000 heat pump grant in Westmorland and Furness

8,628 oil and 2,017 LPG heated homes in Westmorland and Furness sit off the gas grid, 12.6% of local properties.

How Westmorland and Furness compares

Heavily off the gas grid

Oil and LPG heating is far more common in Westmorland and Furness 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 Westmorland and Furness 42 of 318 councils for off-grid heating.

How Westmorland and Furness heats its homes

Oil Qualifies 8,628
LPG Qualifies 2,017
Electric only Usually not 11,704

Of 84,598 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 Westmorland and Furness

1,544 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 Westmorland and Furness

Districts that sit mostly or wholly inside Westmorland and Furness.

DistrictPost townOilLPGShare
CA10 Penrith 1,982 409 46.2%
CA11 Penrith 1,333 269 17.3%
LA12 Ulverston 810 229 13.8%
LA8 Kendal 778 162 31.2%
LA6 Carnforth 647 255 19.1%
CA4 Carlisle 582 128 22.3%
CA17 Kirkby Stephen 562 100 34.5%
CA16 Appleby-In-Westmorland 551 110 29.3%
CA12 Keswick 380 77 13.3%
LA11 Grange-Over-Sands 334 84 10.4%
LA22 Ambleside 241 97 12.3%
LA23 Windermere 238 53 7.3%
LA10 Sedbergh 207 74 20.9%
CA9 Alston 231 43 31.1%
LA7 Milnthorpe 185 24 12.7%
LA20 Broughton-In-Furness 106 25 28.0%
LA17 Kirkby-In-Furness 73 15 22.2%
LA21 Coniston 49 24 14.0%

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