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Off‑Gas Grant

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

£9,000 heat pump grant in Cherwell

4,763 oil and 675 LPG heated homes in Cherwell sit off the gas grid, 9.9% of local properties.

How Cherwell compares

More off-grid than most

Oil and LPG heating is far more common in Cherwell 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 Cherwell 60 of 318 councils for off-grid heating.

How Cherwell heats its homes

Oil Qualifies 4,763
LPG Qualifies 675
Electric only Usually not 7,136

Of 54,847 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 Cherwell

667 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 Cherwell

Districts that sit mostly or wholly inside Cherwell.

DistrictPost townOilLPGShare
OX15 Banbury 2,027 228 32.7%
OX17 Banbury 1,406 112 26.5%
OX27 Bicester 977 117 41.1%
OX25 Bicester 835 151 19.0%
OX33 Oxford 192 35 10.4%

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