Pick a starting point
- A gas-heated semi in St Helens, Wirral or Sefton: Semis, terraces and flats
- A lower-income household in a home rated D to G: Warm Homes routes
- A council or housing association tenant: Renting in Merseyside
- A flat or house near the sea: Coastal homes
- A listed house, most likely in Wirral or Sefton: Listed buildings
- An electric-heated home or flat: Off the gas grid
Not sure? The borough selector puts your borough's route, grants and figures in one place, and links on from there.
Your borough
Start with the borough the home is in.
- Borough selectorWarm Homes route and intake, grants paid, gas, housing and tenure for one borough at a time
- Compare the boroughsAll five side by side, with Liverpool for reference
- WirralThe most grants paid of the five, semis, flats and listed villas
- SeftonSouthport to Bootle, and the council's own Warm Homes team
- St Helens, Knowsley and HaltonSemis, terraces, social housing and the combined authority route
Paying for it
The two schemes and how much they have been used here.
- Warm Homes routesThe combined authority or Sefton Council, the national rules and what is known about intake
- Grants paid by boroughBoiler Upgrade Scheme heat pumps per 1,000 households
The homes
What the housing and heating of the five boroughs mean for the work.
- How Merseyside heats its homesCensus 2021 heating by borough
- Off the gas gridElectric, LPG, oil and heat-network homes
- Semis, terraces and flatsWhere the outdoor unit goes on each
- Coastal homesSalt, wind, flats and seafront streets in Sefton and Wirral
- Renting in MerseysideSocial housing, private landlords and tenants
- Merseyside in numbersEvery figure in two tables
Planning
When a heat pump needs permission.
- Planning rulesClass G, Class C, the sound calculation and conservation areas
- Listed buildingsRecords by borough and a sensible order of work
About the site
Terms, answers and sources.
- GlossaryWhat the scheme and planning words mean
- QuestionsShort answers, each linked to its page
- SourcesEvery dataset and page used, with dates
- AboutWho runs it and why
What ties the pages together
Every local figure on the site comes from one data file, built from the 2021 census, the government's 2024 off-gas estimates, the Boiler Upgrade Scheme statistics to September 2026 and the national planning dataset. The Warm Homes routes come from each council's or the combined authority's own page, read on 3 November 2026. Because the figures share one source, a number quoted on one page matches the same number on every other.
The site covers Wirral, Sefton, St Helens, Knowsley and Halton. Liverpool appears only as a reference row; Cheshire, West Lancashire and Greater Manchester are outside it. To ask for a heat pump quote for a home in one of the five, use the form below, and we reply by email.