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Off‑Gas Grant

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

£9,000 heat pump grant in Dorset

12,118 oil and 1,719 LPG heated homes in Dorset sit off the gas grid, 10.2% of local properties.

How Dorset compares

More off-grid than most

Oil and LPG heating is far more common in Dorset 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 Dorset 58 of 318 councils for off-grid heating.

How Dorset heats its homes

Oil Qualifies 12,118
LPG Qualifies 1,719
Electric only Usually not 19,713

Of 135,074 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 Dorset

2,371 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 Dorset

Districts that sit mostly or wholly inside Dorset.

DistrictPost townOilLPGShare
DT2 Dorchester 2,678 292 33.6%
SP5 Salisbury 2,175 216 35.7%
DT9 Sherborne 1,642 274 24.1%
DT11 Blandford Forum 1,404 168 15.3%
BH21 Wimborne 1,120 176 9.4%
DT6 Bridport 873 138 11.6%
DT10 Sturminster Newton 905 47 21.1%
SP6 Fordingbridge 810 135 20.1%
SP7 Shaftesbury 861 77 16.6%
SP8 Gillingham 759 93 15.8%
BH20 Wareham 642 101 11.5%
DT8 Beaminster 560 109 28.3%
DT3 Weymouth 348 108 5.2%
BH24 Ringwood 353 65 5.4%
DT7 Lyme Regis 208 44 9.7%

Other authorities in South West