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Off‑Gas Grant

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

£9,000 heat pump grant in Shropshire

16,961 oil and 3,388 LPG heated homes in Shropshire sit off the gas grid, 18.6% of local properties.

How Shropshire compares

Heavily off the gas grid

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

Least off-grid Most off-grid

19% of homes here run on oil or LPG, against 4% across England and Wales. That ranks Shropshire 22 of 318 councils for off-grid heating.

How Shropshire heats its homes

Oil Qualifies 16,961
LPG Qualifies 3,388
Electric only Usually not 14,749

Of 109,296 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 Shropshire

3,193 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 Shropshire

Districts that sit mostly or wholly inside Shropshire.

DistrictPost townOilLPGShare
SY5 Shrewsbury 2,316 371 36.4%
SY4 Shrewsbury 2,146 260 28.2%
SY10 Oswestry 2,161 242 49.3%
SY13 Whitchurch 1,811 389 31.4%
TF9 Market Drayton 1,524 399 22.4%
SY22 Llanymynech 1,476 427 63.8%
SY7 Craven Arms 1,622 234 49.0%
SY8 Ludlow 1,366 317 24.6%
DY14 Kidderminster 1,028 349 57.7%
CW3 Crewe 835 314 36.5%
WV16 Bridgnorth 809 293 18.3%
SY15 Montgomery 861 96 58.3%
TF11 Shifnal 627 194 18.0%
SY12 Ellesmere 621 122 25.0%
WR15 Tenbury Wells 541 155 28.5%
SY11 Oswestry 628 67 7.0%
WV15 Bridgnorth 464 198 25.4%
SY6 Church Stretton 518 63 23.5%
DY12 Bewdley 357 210 15.5%
SY9 Bishops Castle 461 46 52.6%

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