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Off‑Gas Grant

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

£9,000 heat pump grant in Cornwall

30,579 oil and 8,602 LPG heated homes in Cornwall sit off the gas grid, 17.9% of local properties.

How Cornwall compares

Heavily off the gas grid

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

Least off-grid Most off-grid

18% of homes here run on oil or LPG, against 4% across England and Wales. That ranks Cornwall 23 of 318 councils for off-grid heating.

How Cornwall heats its homes

Oil Qualifies 30,579
LPG Qualifies 8,602
Electric only Usually not 64,888

Of 218,982 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 Cornwall

4,962 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 Cornwall

Districts that sit mostly or wholly inside Cornwall.

DistrictPost townOilLPGShare
PL26 St. Austell 2,483 968 34.8%
EX22 Holsworthy 1,890 428 53.6%
PL15 Launceston 1,752 302 26.6%
PL30 Bodmin 1,622 366 51.0%
TR16 Redruth 1,368 479 33.3%
TR4 Truro 1,281 504 39.2%
TR12 Helston 1,572 195 47.4%
TR13 Helston 1,408 353 23.5%
PL14 Liskeard 1,406 305 18.5%
TR11 Falmouth 1,255 285 12.8%
EX23 Bude 1,120 312 20.0%
TR20 Penzance 1,089 326 38.4%
TR19 Penzance 934 441 34.6%
TR8 Newquay 859 424 23.2%
TR2 Truro 1,106 126 28.6%
PL27 Wadebridge 983 221 20.0%
TR3 Truro 917 157 24.8%
PL12 Saltash 777 153 12.8%
PL32 Camelford 729 109 46.4%
PL13 Looe 603 193 17.5%

Other authorities in South West