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Government Relax Heat Pump Planning Rules..
Deliver new regulations to back consumers and encourage innovation
- Lifting over 1 million households out of fuel poverty under plans to consult on increasing minimum energy efficiency standards for all rented homes by 2030
- Consulting on plans to increase energy efficiency standards for new boilers and heat pumps, saving households with a new gas boiler £30 a year on running costs
- Allowing more households in England to install an air source heat pump without the need to submit a planning application from early next year, by removing the rule requiring them to be installed at least one metre from a property’s boundary. This will provide greater flexibility, with rules still in place around listed buildings
Support thousands more households with home upgrades
- Helping thousands more families to get £7,500 off the cost of a heat pump, with an extra £30 million for the Boiler Upgrade Scheme this financial year, while almost doubling the budget to £295 million for the next financial year
- Overseeing around £3.2 billion of investment in warmer homes across 2025 to 2026 from government, social housing providers and supplier obligations, delivering measures to help lower bills and support cleaner heating to up to 300,000 households