The EV chargepoint grant if you rent or own a flat

You are in the group the grant was actually designed for. It pays 75% of the cost of buying and installing a chargepoint, up to £500, and it closes on 31 March 2027. The money is the easy part. The hard part is the parking space — and specifically proving you are entitled to it.

Who qualifies

You can apply if you own and live in a flat, or if you rent and live in any kind of residential property, including shared-ownership homes. You need an eligible vehicle, and the property must have designated, private off-street parking. You are eligible for one grant, and the work must be done by an OZEV-authorised installer using an eligible chargepoint.

You do not claim the money. The installer applies it directly against your installation invoice, so you pay the reduced amount and never file anything. That is why the installer's OZEV authorisation matters more than which charger you pick — no authorisation, no grant, whatever the hardware.

The condition that actually stops people: the parking space

"Designated, private off-street parking" is doing a lot of work in that sentence, and you must be able to demonstrate a legal entitlement to the space. That rules out more situations than people expect:

Your parking	Qualifies?
A numbered bay allocated to your flat in your lease or tenancy	Yes — this is the clean case
A driveway at the rented house you live in	Yes, with the landlord's permission
A communal car park, first-come-first-served, no allocated bay	No — not designated to you
A space you rent separately from a third party	Possibly — depends on what the agreement gives you; the entitlement has to be demonstrable
On-street outside your home, even with a permit	No — a permit is not private off-street parking
A garage block a short walk away	Depends on allocation and on whether a charger can be installed there at all

Trailing a cable across the pavement is not a workaround. It is a trip hazard on a public highway and it is not a lawful substitute for off-street parking. If you have no off-street space, the honest position is that this grant is not available to you — the routes worth asking about are your local authority's on-street residential charging provision, or a cross-pavement scheme where the council runs one. Ask the council directly: provision varies by area and is not a national entitlement, so no website can tell you whether your street has it.

If you rent: getting the landlord to agree

You will need the owner's permission, because a charger is a fixed alteration to their property. Two things make that conversation much easier, and both are true:

It costs them nothing. You are paying, with 75% of it grant-funded.
There is a separate grant aimed at them. Residential landlords can claim 75% up to £500 per socket for up to 200 sockets a year. If they own other units, installing across the block may be more attractive to them than permitting one. Worth mentioning — it turns "can I please" into "here is something you might want".

Put the request in writing, name the installer, say who is paying, and offer to share the certification. The full detail of all three schemes, including the landlord one, is on EV charger grant.

If you own a flat: two extra hurdles

Owning helps with consent but introduces the building. Expect to deal with:

The freeholder or management company. A charger in a communal car park usually needs their consent even where the bay is demised to you, because the cable route crosses common parts.
Where the supply comes from. Feeding it from your own flat's consumer unit keeps the billing simple but can mean a long cable run through common parts. Feeding it from the landlord's supply solves the route and creates a metering problem. This is the question to settle before anyone quotes, because it changes the price more than the hardware does.

What you will pay after the grant

The grant is 75% up to £500, so the cap only bites above roughly £667 of installed cost. On a typical £900 installation you receive £500 and pay £400. On a £600 installation you receive £450 and pay £150. Past about £667 the grant becomes a flat £500 discount and every additional pound is yours, which means the cable run — the main cost variable — is entirely at your expense once you are over the cap.

Before you book

Confirm your parking is designated and that you can evidence the entitlement.
Get written consent from the landlord, freeholder or management company as applicable.
Confirm the installer is OZEV-authorised and the unit is an eligible chargepoint.
Settle which supply the charger is fed from, and the cable route.
Ask which DNO route applies — G98 or G99.
Confirm the Part P certificate is included; a charger is a new circuit and is notifiable.

If the cable has to cross a driveway or open ground to reach the space, the burial and protection requirements are covered in garage and outdoor electrics. And if the flat's board turns out to have no spare capacity, that is a consumer unit question before it is a charger question.

Get EV charger quotes with the grant applied

Tell us whether you rent or own, whether the parking is allocated to you, and roughly how far it is from the board. Those three answers decide eligibility and price.

What we will not do: we do not sell your details on, we do not add you to a marketing list, and we do not require a phone number. If you would rather not be called, leave the phone out — email is enough.