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OZEV landlord chargepoint grants

The EV Chargepoint Grant for Residential Landlords: what it pays, who qualifies, the property and parking conditions and how the application and payment work.

The EV Chargepoint Grant for Residential Landlords is a UK government grant, run by the Office for Zero Emission Vehicles (OZEV), that pays towards buying and installing EV chargepoint sockets at residential rental properties. It covers 75% of the combined hardware and installation cost, capped at £500 per socket. The installer claims the grant and deducts it from the customer’s invoice.

As at 22 July 2026, the grant is open until 31 March 2027. It is one of five schemes that continued after the April 2026 reorganisation. The government reserves the right to change or close the schemes and says it will aim to give at least four weeks’ notice.

What the grant pays and the socket cap

The grant pays 75% of the combined cost of the chargepoint hardware and its installation, up to £500 per socket. The previous cap of £350 rose to £500 on 1 April 2026. For any installation costing £667 or more, the full £500 applies. Below that figure, the grant is 75% of the actual cost rather than the flat £500.

A landlord can claim for up to 200 sockets a year. These can be spread across several properties or concentrated at one. At £500 a socket, that puts the maximum annual grant across a portfolio at £100,000.

Where the applicant is part of a group with a parent company, holding company or controlling person, the 200-socket limit applies to the group as a whole rather than to each organisation within it.

Only reasonable eligible purchase and installation costs count towards the grant. The applicant should ask the authorised installer to separate grant-eligible work from any landlord works, network upgrades, maintenance or ongoing running costs in the quote rather than assuming the whole project attracts the 75% contribution.

What changed on 1 April 2026

The Department for Transport announced a set of changes on 25 February 2026 that took effect on 1 April 2026:

  • the cap per socket rose from £350 to £500
  • the OZEV portfolio was streamlined from eight schemes to five, with three closing on 31 March 2026
  • the landlord grant was extended for a final year, to 31 March 2027
  • applications moved to the Find a Grant platform, where applicants apply directly
  • installers must now supply photographic evidence with a claim

A landlord who applied at the old £350 rate before 1 April 2026 could submit a fresh application through Find a Grant to access the £500 rate. The earlier application is then cancelled and the new one assessed.

Who can apply and the registration requirement

The grant is open to organisations and individuals that own or manage residential rental property. Eligible applicants are:

  • individuals with property to let
  • Right to Manage (RTM) companies
  • Residents’ Management Companies (RMC)
  • companies or people who own the freehold of a multi-unit property
  • companies that own a building’s common areas, including shareholders who are the leaseholders
  • registered providers of social housing
  • public sector organisations, including government departments, local councils, the armed forces, the NHS (National Health Service) and emergency services
  • charities that own or manage residential property
  • property management companies acting for a landlord

An applicant must also be one of the following: registered at Companies House, registered for VAT with HMRC (HM Revenue and Customs) or listed on the register of social housing providers. This business-registration requirement is the main line that separates the landlord grant from the renter and flat owner grant, where an individual applies with no such registration.

The grant is not available to:

  • someone who lives in the property themselves
  • holiday accommodation
  • new builds where a chargepoint is already required under building regulations
  • properties still under construction
  • work already carried out before OZEV confirms eligibility
  • properties in the Channel Islands or the Isle of Man

Eligible properties and parking spaces

The property must be residential and let for people to live in. That covers a single let dwelling such as a flat, a building of multiple units such as a block of flats and the common or communal areas of a multi-unit property such as an apartment block or a housing estate. Houses in multiple occupation used as rental accommodation are eligible, and each socket can be covered by its own application. The property must be in England, Wales, Scotland or Northern Ireland.

Each parking space fitted with a chargepoint has to be off-street, private and clearly defined, though it does not have to be part of the property itself. It must be accessible to the tenant at all times and owned by the landlord or covered by a legal right the landlord holds. Proof of those rights and permissions has to be in place before work starts, and the installer checks that a vehicle can charge safely in the space. Where cables or other parts cross private or public land, the landlord needs the relevant permissions for that too.

Electrical, maintenance and fire-safety prerequisites

Several things have to be settled before a landlord applies. Any upgrade the building’s electrical supply needs must already be done. There has to be an arrangement for regular maintenance checks of the chargepoints and a decision on how the electricity and running costs will be paid. Common approaches to running costs are to fold them into the rent, fit a separate meter for the chargepoint or use a chargepoint management system that bills the user.

The chargepoints also have to be accessible to tenants. The property’s risk assessment has to be updated to include them, and the landlord has to be ready to act on that assessment with appropriate fire-safety measures.

How the application and payment work

The process runs through the installer and the Find a Grant platform:

  1. get a dated quote from an OZEV-authorised installer and agree the scope of work
  2. choose a chargepoint from the OZEV eligible model list
  3. create an account on Find a Grant and submit the application with the required documents
  4. wait for OZEV to confirm eligibility
  5. once approved, the installer carries out the installation
  6. the installer submits a claim with photographic evidence
  7. the grant is paid to the installer and deducted from the invoice

The chargepoint must not be installed before OZEV confirms eligibility. An installation carried out too early can have its grant refused. A landlord can apply for several sockets at one address on a single application, but a separate application is needed for each additional address and for each additional installer.

The chargepoint has to be a model on the OZEV eligible chargepoint model list, published and updated by OZEV as an ODS (OpenDocument Spreadsheet) file that marks which models qualify for residential grants, commercial grants or both. All listed models are smart chargers able to communicate with other devices and the grid. The photographic evidence the installer submits is four photos: a close-up of the chargepoint, its model and serial number, the chargepoint in relation to the parking space and a wide-angle shot of the building.

OZEV can audit an application before approval and an installation afterwards, which may include a site visit. It can cancel an application if the applicant does not allow the audit or does not respond to its questions. Questions about a live application go to the installer or to the Government Grant Managed Service at ggms.reslandlord@cabinetoffice.gov.uk, quoting the application reference and the installer’s business name and OZEV number.

Documents required by applicant type

The supporting documents depend on who is applying. Every applicant needs the dated installer quote. Beyond that:

Applicant Additional documents
Private landlord or charity Title register from HM Land Registry showing freehold ownership for a multi-unit property and a dated copy of the current insurance policy showing the address and confirming the property is let
RTM company or RMC Evidence of the Companies House listing and a document confirming the company’s position, such as minutes of its appointment
Property management company acting for a landlord Its letter of appointment or management agreement, plus the documents required for the type of landlord it represents

VAT on landlord installations

An EV chargepoint is not on HMRC’s list of qualifying energy-saving materials, so a standalone chargepoint installation is normally standard-rated for VAT. Being a residential landlord or being VAT-registered does not turn the supply into a zero-rated energy-saving-material installation. Whether a business can recover any VAT charged is a separate tax question that depends on its circumstances; the installer or tax adviser should confirm that rather than treating it as an OZEV grant rule.

How it fits with the other OZEV schemes

The landlord grant is one of five schemes in the current OZEV portfolio:

Scheme Cap per socket Socket limit
Renters and flat owners £500 1 grant per eligible applicant
Residential landlords £500 200 a year
Households with on-street parking £500 1 per household
Workplace Charging Scheme £500 40 sockets
State-funded education £2,000 40 sockets

The landlord grant and the renter and flat owner grant are separate schemes. The landlord is the applicant for the landlord grant, whereas the renter grant is applied for by the individual tenant or flat owner. A tenant at a property where the landlord has installed a chargepoint under this grant can still apply for their own grant if they meet its criteria.

A companion scheme, the Residential Landlord Infrastructure Grant, closed to new applications on 31 March 2026 alongside the Commercial Landlord Chargepoint Grant and the Staff and Fleets Grant. The infrastructure grant funded preparatory groundwork for multiple chargepoints, such as cabling, distribution boards and trenching, at up to £30,000 per building. While it was open, it could be used alongside the chargepoint grant at the same location, though not for the same chargepoints.

Applies to

EV charging

Last reviewed

22 Jul 2026