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Off‑Gas Grant

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

£9,000 heat pump grant in Test Valley

4,849 oil and 885 LPG heated homes in Test Valley sit off the gas grid, 13.5% of local properties.

How Test Valley compares

Heavily off the gas grid

Oil and LPG heating is far more common in Test Valley 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 Test Valley 35 of 318 councils for off-grid heating.

How Test Valley heats its homes

Oil Qualifies 4,849
LPG Qualifies 885
Electric only Usually not 5,442

Of 42,572 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 Test Valley

1,035 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 Test Valley

Districts that sit mostly or wholly inside Test Valley.

DistrictPost townOilLPGShare
SP11 Andover 2,464 256 21.0%
SO51 Romsey 1,079 376 14.4%
SO20 Stockbridge 1,246 196 53.9%
SO21 Winchester 1,063 254 22.0%
SP9 Tidworth 339 32 10.4%

Other authorities in South East