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Off‑Gas Grant

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

£9,000 heat pump grant in Wiltshire

20,766 oil and 2,188 LPG heated homes in Wiltshire sit off the gas grid, 13.6% of local properties.

How Wiltshire compares

Heavily off the gas grid

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

Least off-grid Most off-grid

14% of homes here run on oil or LPG, against 4% across England and Wales. That ranks Wiltshire 33 of 318 councils for off-grid heating.

How Wiltshire heats its homes

Oil Qualifies 20,766
LPG Qualifies 2,188
Electric only Usually not 28,311

Of 169,159 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 Wiltshire

3,621 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 Wiltshire

Districts that sit mostly or wholly inside Wiltshire.

DistrictPost townOilLPGShare
SP11 Andover 2,464 256 21.0%
SP5 Salisbury 2,175 216 35.7%
SN8 Marlborough 2,004 212 28.9%
SP3 Salisbury 1,993 140 55.1%
SN10 Devizes 1,855 162 18.4%
BA12 Warminster 1,736 181 18.1%
SN15 Chippenham 1,589 228 14.4%
SN16 Malmesbury 1,527 145 32.6%
SN9 Pewsey 1,298 146 51.4%
SN14 Chippenham 1,095 159 14.4%
SP4 Salisbury 921 75 7.7%
SP7 Shaftesbury 861 77 16.6%
SN6 Swindon 725 67 9.7%
SN4 Swindon 654 95 8.4%
SN11 Calne 687 49 8.5%
BA13 Westbury 500 57 7.3%
SN12 Melksham 441 84 5.7%
SP9 Tidworth 339 32 10.4%
BA15 Bradford-On-Avon 216 26 5.5%

Other authorities in South West