Where to begin
- You live in a flat, especially in Manchester or Salford: Heat pumps for flats
- You live in a terrace in Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside or Bolton: Terraced houses
- Your flat is in a converted mill, warehouse or chapel: Mill and warehouse conversions
- Officers have been in touch about home improvements: Warm Homes in Greater Manchester
- You rent, or you let a property: Renting
- You own a semi or detached house in Stockport, Trafford, Bury or Wigan: Stockport and Trafford
Flats and houses
What the planning rules allow on your kind of home.
- Flat or house checkerSix questions, then the Class G limits and your borough's Warm Homes route
- Heat pumps for flatsOne unit per block, freeholders, shared systems and electric-heated flats
- Terraced housesBack yards, alleys, the sound calculation and room for a cylinder
- Mill and warehouse conversionsFlats in converted buildings, listing and conservation areas
- Off the gas gridWhy a quarter of Manchester and Salford properties have no gas meter
The boroughs
Figures and routes for each part of the city region.
- All ten boroughsOne table, then a paragraph on each
- Manchester and SalfordFlats, electric heating and renting
- Stockport and TraffordOwner-occupied semis and the highest grant rates
- Wigan and BoltonGas-heated semis and terraces
- Oldham, Rochdale, Bury and TamesideTerraced towns and councils running their own Warm Homes delivery
Paying for it
The area scheme, the national grant and who has used them.
- Warm Homes in Greater ManchesterThe area-based Warm Homes: Local Grant and its delivery split
- Grants paid by boroughBoiler Upgrade Scheme heat pumps per 1,000 households
- RentingLandlords, the Good Landlord Charter, social housing and tenants
Planning and data
The rules in full and the census behind the figures.
- Planning rulesClass G after the 2025 changes, Class C and conservation areas
- Listed buildingsRecords by borough and an order of work
- How Greater Manchester heats its homesCensus 2021 heating by borough
About the guide
Words, answers and sources.
- GlossaryTerms from the schemes and the planning rules
- QuestionsShort answers with links
- SourcesDatasets and pages, with dates
- AboutWho publishes it and how it is checked
How the guide hangs together
Every borough figure 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 delivery split comes from the combined authority's own page, read on 3 November 2026. So a number on one page is the same number everywhere else on the site.
The guide covers the ten Greater Manchester boroughs and stops at their edges: the Lancashire districts to the north, Cheshire to the south and Merseyside to the west are outside it. It names no installers and passes no details on; questions sent through the form are answered by email.