Help to improve the energy efficiency of your home | Help to improve your private housing

Warm Homes: Local Grant coming in September 2025

Eligibility

Owners and tenants/landlords

Occupier on low income and meet one of the following criteria:

gross annual household income of £36,000 or less
those living in deprived areas (ranked in the lowest income deciles)
those already receiving means-tested benefits (like Universal Credit or Housing Benefit)
have an Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) between D and G
are privately owned (owner occupied or privately rented)

The scheme will be open to all fuel types. This includes on gas-grid households (heated by mains gas), and off gas-grid households (heated by fuels such as electricity, oil, coal, or liquid petroleum gas).

Landlords can also apply for funding to upgrade properties, which will reduce bills for tenants in the private rented sector. Landlords will receive full funding for the first property and 50% funding for additional properties.

Maximum spend £15,000 on either Energy performance measures and low carbon heat measures

What measures are available?

Energy Performance Measures:
Flat Roof Insulation	Cavity Wall Insulation
Loft Insulation	Internal Wall Insulation
Room-in-roof Insulation	Park Home Insulation
Underfloor Insulation	Solid/External Wall Insulation
Hot Water Cylinder Insulation	Heating Controls
Hot Water Cylinder/Tank	Hot Water Cylinder Thermostat
Solar PV	Low Energy Lighting
Battery Storage (only eligible when complementing Solar PV)	Solar Thermal
Draught proofing	Digital/Smart Controls
Energy Efficiency Doors	Double/Triple Glazing

Low Carbon Heat:
Air Source Heat Pump
Ground Source Heat Pump
Hybrid Heat Pumps (for homes currently heated by mains gas)
Shared Ground Loops
Wet Central Heating (a system using water to distribute heat)
Biomass
High Retention Storage Heaters

Check if your post code in is a deprived area:-

English indices of deprivation 2019: Postcode Lookup (opendatacommunities.org)