Borough selector

How to read a result

Each result has three parts. The first is the Warm Homes: Local Grant route: which body delivers the scheme in that borough, in the words of the council's own page where it says so, and what is known about whether applications are open. The second is the Boiler Upgrade Scheme count: how many heat pumps it has paid for in the borough, and that number as a rate per 1,000 households so the boroughs can be compared fairly. The third is a set of eight figures about the homes: households, the share heated by mains gas alone, the share without a gas meter, the semi-detached and terraced shares, owner-occupation, social renting and listed-building records.

The intake status is the part most likely to change. The government's list of funded councils was last updated on 2 July 2026; the council pages were read on 3 November 2026. Before you plan around a date, open the source link in the result.

Each borough in brief

Wirral

143,253 households in 2021, 84.3% of them heated by mains gas alone and 41.6% living in semi-detached houses; 65.0% owned their home and 15.4% rented socially. 4.88% of domestic properties had no gas meter in 2024. The Boiler Upgrade Scheme had paid for 257 heat pumps by September 2026, about 1.8 per 1,000 households. Warm Homes: Local Grant: the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority. More on Wirral.

Sefton

123,075 households in 2021, 83.6% of them heated by mains gas alone and 46.1% living in semi-detached houses; 66.6% owned their home and 14.4% rented socially. 5.62% of domestic properties had no gas meter in 2024. The Boiler Upgrade Scheme had paid for 185 heat pumps by September 2026, about 1.5 per 1,000 households. Warm Homes: Local Grant: Sefton Council's Retrofit Team. More on Sefton.

St Helens

81,011 households in 2021, 84.9% of them heated by mains gas alone and 47.0% living in semi-detached houses; 64.2% owned their home and 19.7% rented socially. 2.96% of domestic properties had no gas meter in 2024. The Boiler Upgrade Scheme had paid for 118 heat pumps by September 2026, about 1.5 per 1,000 households. Warm Homes: Local Grant: the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority. More on St Helens.

Knowsley

66,073 households in 2021, 83.4% of them heated by mains gas alone and 43.1% living in semi-detached houses; 59.5% owned their home and 25.3% rented socially. 2.21% of domestic properties had no gas meter in 2024. The Boiler Upgrade Scheme had paid for 75 heat pumps by September 2026, about 1.1 per 1,000 households. Warm Homes: Local Grant: the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority. More on Knowsley.

Halton

55,951 households in 2021, 84.3% of them heated by mains gas alone and 34.5% living in semi-detached houses; 60.5% owned their home and 24.3% rented socially. 3.35% of domestic properties had no gas meter in 2024. The Boiler Upgrade Scheme had paid for 84 heat pumps by September 2026, about 1.5 per 1,000 households. Warm Homes: Local Grant: the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority. More on Halton.

What the five have in common

Read the five results one after another and the shared picture is clear. Every borough heats more than four homes in five with gas alone, against 73.8% across England and Wales. Every borough has more semi-detached homes than the national 31.5%. And every borough has had fewer grant-funded heat pumps per household than the England and Wales average of about 3.9 per 1,000. The differences are in the detail: Sefton's coast and flats, Knowsley's and Halton's social housing, Wirral's larger number of grants and listed buildings.

After the selector

The selector is a starting point. For a particular home, what matters is its own heating, its own walls and windows, and who owns it. The house types page explains what a semi, a terrace or a flat means for the work; the routes page explains each borough's grant route in full; and the form at the foot of the page takes a quote request for a home in any of the five, or any question the figures do not answer.