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Off‑Gas Grant

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

£9,000 heat pump grant in Ashford

3,682 oil and 831 LPG heated homes in Ashford sit off the gas grid, 10.3% of local properties.

How Ashford compares

More off-grid than most

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

Least off-grid Most off-grid

10% of homes here run on oil or LPG, against 4% across England and Wales. That ranks Ashford 56 of 318 councils for off-grid heating.

How Ashford heats its homes

Oil Qualifies 3,682
LPG Qualifies 831
Electric only Usually not 5,305

Of 43,702 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 Ashford

408 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 Ashford

Districts that sit mostly or wholly inside Ashford.

DistrictPost townOilLPGShare
TN25 Ashford 1,415 406 26.5%
TN26 Ashford 1,125 350 40.2%
CT4 Canterbury 1,067 228 25.5%
TN17 Cranbrook 990 134 25.1%
TN27 Ashford 869 119 21.2%
TN30 Tenterden 454 51 13.5%

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