Landlord Guide · Planned higher standard by 2030

How Much Does It Cost to Improve Your EPC Rating?

The final policy for in-scope rented homes in England and Wales is a higher standard equivalent to EPC C by 2030. A D-rated home typically gets there for £1,000–£4,000; an older E-rated home £6,000–£15,000. Pick your area for locally-adjusted costs across 310 towns and cities in England and Wales.

The 2030 deadline

The government's final policy uses a single compliance date of 1 October 2030 for all in-scope private tenancies in England and Wales; there is no earlier deadline for new tenancies. The proposed maximum spend is £10,000, or 10% of the property value below £100,000, whichever is lower. Parliamentary approval and implementing legislation are still required. Source: UK Government response, published 21 January 2026.

The two routes to C

Typical Costs

Band D → C (most homes)

£1,000–£4,000

Cavity wall fill, loft top-up, heating controls, draught-proofing and LEDs, occasionally a boiler swap.

Band E → C (older / solid wall)

£6,000–£15,000

Older, often solid-walled stock: wall insulation, a new boiler and sometimes glazing on top of the basics.

Based on a typical 3-bed home. Your area's page adjusts these for local labour rates.

Find your area

EPC Upgrade Costs by Location

London

Barking and Dagenham Barnet Bexley Brent Bromley Camden City of London Croydon Ealing Enfield Greenwich Hackney Hammersmith and Fulham Haringey Harrow Havering Hillingdon Hounslow Islington Kensington and Chelsea Kingston upon Thames Lambeth Lewisham London Merton Newham Redbridge Richmond upon Thames Southwark Sutton Tower Hamlets Waltham Forest Wandsworth Westminster

South East

Adur Arun Ashford Basingstoke and Deane Bracknell Forest Brighton Canterbury Cherwell Chichester Crawley Dartford Dover East Hampshire Eastbourne Eastleigh Elmbridge Epsom and Ewell Fareham Folkestone and Hythe Gosport Gravesham Guildford Hart Hastings Havant Horsham Isle of Wight Lewes Maidstone Medway Mid Sussex Milton Keynes Mole Valley New Forest Oxford Portsmouth Reading Reigate and Banstead Rother Runnymede Rushmoor Sevenoaks Slough South Oxfordshire Southampton Spelthorne Surrey Heath Swale Tandridge Test Valley Thanet Tonbridge and Malling Tunbridge Wells Vale of White Horse Waverley Wealden West Berkshire West Oxfordshire Winchester Windsor and Maidenhead Woking Wokingham Worthing

South West

Bath Bournemouth Bristol Cheltenham Cornwall Cotswold East Devon Exeter Forest of Dean Gloucester Mid Devon North Devon North Somerset Plymouth Poole Salisbury South Gloucestershire South Hams Stroud Swindon Teignbridge Tewkesbury Torbay Torridge West Devon

East of England

Babergh Basildon Bedford Braintree Breckland Brentwood Broadland Broxbourne Cambridge Castle Point Central Bedfordshire Chelmsford Colchester Dacorum East Cambridgeshire East Hertfordshire Epping Forest Fenland Great Yarmouth Harlow Hertsmere Huntingdonshire Ipswich King's Lynn and West Norfolk Luton Maldon Mid Suffolk North Hertfordshire North Norfolk Norwich Peterborough Rochford South Cambridgeshire South Norfolk Southend-on-Sea St Albans Stevenage Tendring Three Rivers Thurrock Uttlesford Watford Welwyn Hatfield

West Midlands

Birmingham Bromsgrove Cannock Chase Coventry Dudley East Staffordshire Herefordshire Lichfield Malvern Hills Newcastle-under-Lyme North Warwickshire Nuneaton and Bedworth Redditch Rugby Sandwell Shropshire Solihull South Staffordshire Stafford Staffordshire Moorlands Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-on-Avon Tamworth Telford and Wrekin Walsall Warwick Wolverhampton Worcester Wychavon Wyre Forest

East Midlands

Amber Valley Ashfield Bassetlaw Blaby Bolsover Boston Broxtowe Charnwood Chesterfield Derby Derbyshire Dales East Lindsey Erewash Gedling Harborough High Peak Hinckley and Bosworth Leicester Lincoln Mansfield Melton Newark and Sherwood North East Derbyshire North Kesteven North West Leicestershire Northampton Nottingham Oadby and Wigston Rushcliffe Rutland South Derbyshire South Holland South Kesteven West Lindsey

Yorkshire and the Humber

Barnsley Bradford Calderdale Doncaster East Riding of Yorkshire Huddersfield Hull Leeds North East Lincolnshire North Lincolnshire Rotherham Sheffield Wakefield York

North West

Blackburn with Darwen Blackpool Bolton Burnley Bury Cheshire East Chester Chorley Fylde Halton Hyndburn Knowsley Lancaster Liverpool Manchester Oldham Pendle Preston Ribble Valley Rochdale Rossendale Salford Sefton South Ribble St. Helens Stockport Tameside Trafford Warrington West Lancashire Wigan Wirral Wyre

North East

County Durham Darlington Gateshead Hartlepool Middlesbrough Newcastle upon Tyne North Tyneside Northumberland Redcar and Cleveland South Tyneside Stockton-on-Tees Sunderland

Wales

Blaenau Gwent Bridgend Caerphilly Cardiff Carmarthenshire Ceredigion Conwy Denbighshire Flintshire Gwynedd Isle of Anglesey Merthyr Tydfil Monmouthshire Neath Port Talbot Newport Pembrokeshire Powys Rhondda Cynon Taff Swansea Torfaen Vale of Glamorgan Wrexham

Cost model dated 7 July 2026; policy checked 14 July 2026 against the UK Government response published 21 January 2026. Figures are indicative estimates for a typical 3-bed home; actual cost depends on the property's age, construction and current rating. The higher 2030 standard remains subject to Parliamentary approval and implementing legislation. General information, not advice.