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What the Grant Pays
The Residential Landlord Chargepoint Grant pays £500 per active socket installed. It covers up to 75% of the eligible purchase and installation cost per socket. The rate was uplifted from £350 to £500 on 1 April 2026.
The grant is socket-based. You claim £500 for each active chargepoint socket installed. Unlike the previous Residential Landlord Infrastructure Grant, there is no per-building cap on the total grant value.
What the £500 per socket covers:
The charger hardware. The installation cost including cabling runs, distribution board connection, and commissioning. Civil works directly required to install the socket.
Landlords fund infrastructure like major distribution upgrades, groundworks, and passive cable routes to future bays directly, because the per-bay Infrastructure Grant is no longer available.
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How the Two Active Grants Work Together
The Residential Landlord Chargepoint Grant and the Flats and Renters Grant apply to different parties.
Residential Landlord Chargepoint Grant: Claimed by the building owner or management company. £500 per socket. Up to 200 sockets per year across the portfolio.
Flats and Renters Grant: Claimed by the individual resident. £500 per socket. One socket per resident at their own dedicated parking bay.
Both grants can apply to the same project on different bays. A building where the freeholder installs 10 communal sockets and 5 residents each install their own bay grants would receive £5,000 from the landlord grant and £2,500 from resident grants, totalling £7,500.
We coordinate both applications during the project. The landlord grant is applied to your quote. Resident grants are coordinated through the individual residents directly with the OZEV portal.
Who Qualifies
The Residential Landlord Chargepoint Grant is available to organisations that own or manage residential buildings. Eligible applicants include landlords, freeholders, Right to Manage companies, Residents Management Companies, property management agents, housing associations, and public sector bodies.
To qualify, you need:
A residential building with multiple dwellings. Dedicated off street parking for residents. Registration at Companies House or VAT registration with HMRC. An OZEV approved installer for the works. A property in England, Wales, Scotland, or Northern Ireland.
Individual flat owners cannot use the landlord grant directly. They apply for the Flats and Renters Grant at their own dedicated parking space.
How to Claim
We submit the grant application as part of our standard service. The process runs in this order. We complete a site survey and provide a quote showing the grant calculation. You accept the quote at the reduced price after the grant. We submit the application and install the chargers. We claim the grant back from OZEV after commissioning. You pay the reduced price upfront while we recover the grant in the background.
You benefit from the funding immediately. You do not need to pay full price and claim back later.
Portfolio Limits and the 200 Socket Cap
The Residential Landlord Chargepoint Grant allows up to 200 sockets per year across your portfolio. That is a potential £100,000 in grant funding per year for landlords operating multiple buildings.
For example, a landlord installing 25 sockets at each of 8 buildings can claim the full 200 sockets at £500, totalling £100,000. The cap resets each financial year, making phased portfolio electrification straightforward.
What Happened to the Previous £30,000 Grant
The Residential Landlord Infrastructure Grant closed to new applications on 31 March 2026. It paid up to £30,000 per building, split between £500 per provisioned bay and £350 per active socket. It was the main grant for larger residential car parks.
There is no direct replacement for the per-building infrastructure cap. Buildings with significant groundworks now fund those costs directly, although the active socket rate has increased from £350 to £500 to partly offset the change.
If you submitted an application before 31 March, your installer has until 26 May 2026 to complete the claim, with a final resubmission deadline of 6 July 2026.
