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Off‑Gas Grant

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

£9,000 heat pump grant in Basingstoke and Deane

3,672 oil and 491 LPG heated homes in Basingstoke and Deane sit off the gas grid, 6.8% of local properties.

How Basingstoke and Deane compares

More off-grid than most

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

Least off-grid Most off-grid

7% of homes here run on oil or LPG, against 4% across England and Wales. That ranks Basingstoke and Deane 82 of 318 councils for off-grid heating.

How Basingstoke and Deane heats its homes

Oil Qualifies 3,672
LPG Qualifies 491
Electric only Usually not 7,424

Of 60,861 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 Basingstoke and Deane

900 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 Basingstoke and Deane

Districts that sit mostly or wholly inside Basingstoke and Deane.

DistrictPost townOilLPGShare
RG20 Newbury 2,731 218 50.5%
RG25 Basingstoke 727 87 28.1%
RG27 Hook 518 97 7.5%
RG26 Tadley 470 62 7.8%
RG19 Thatcham 312 64 6.9%
RG28 Whitchurch 160 55 9.9%

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