Renters and flat owners can claim 75% of the cost of a home chargepoint, up to £500, if they have private off-street or allocated parking and written landlord permission.[1] Landlords can claim up to £500 per socket across up to 200 sockets. Both grants run until 31 March 2027, an OZEV-approved installer submits the claim, and since 1 April 2026 the chargepoint must not be installed before OZEV confirms the application.[2]
- Renter grant
- 75%, up to £500Per chargepoint, one per property
- Landlord grant
- £500 per socketResidential and social housing
- Landlord cap
- 200 socketsAcross all sites
- Scheme deadline
- 31 March 2027Renter and on-street grants
- Old rate
- £350Before 1 April 2026
Can you get a grant if you rent your home?
Yes. The EV chargepoint grant pays 75% of the cost of buying and installing a chargepoint, up to £500, for people who rent their home or own a flat.[1] Two conditions do most of the filtering.
First, the property needs private off-street parking or an allocated parking space. A shared, unallocated car park does not qualify.
Second, you need your landlord’s permission in writing, naming both parties and the property address.[3] A text message saying “fine by me” is not enough; get a letter or email that spells out who is agreeing to what, at which address.
You never fill in the claim form yourself. An OZEV-approved installer applies on your behalf and takes the grant off your bill.[3] In practice that makes the process short: choose an approved installer, hand over the landlord letter, wait for confirmation, book the install.
The eligibility rules live on GOV.UK’s electric vehicle chargepoint grants guidance, and that page is the authority. If it disagrees with anything you read elsewhere, including here, gov.uk wins.[1]
What the money looks like in practice: an untethered Ohme ePod costs from £949 installed.[4] 75% of £949 is more than £500, so the cap bites, you get the full £500 and pay £449.
What can landlords claim?
The landlord version is bigger than most people expect. It pays up to £500 per chargepoint socket, and one applicant can claim for up to 200 sockets across different sites.[1] It covers residential landlords, social housing providers and property management companies.[2]
The per-socket structure matters. A landlord with twenty flats and twenty allocated spaces is looking at up to £10,000 of support (20 sockets at £500), not one £500 grant. For social housing providers fitting out whole developments, the 200-socket ceiling is the real constraint.
One limit arrived with the April 2026 changes: a resident can only have one grant-funded socket per property.[2] You cannot stack a renter claim and a landlord claim on the same parking space.
What changed on 1 April 2026?
Three things, and one of them is a trap.
The good news first: the grant rate rose from £350 to £500 per chargepoint.[2]
The consolidation: three schemes closed on the same date. The staff and fleets grant, the commercial landlord grant and the residential landlord infrastructure grant all stopped taking applications.[2] If you were planning a claim under any of those, the surviving chargepoint grants above are what remains.
The trap is the order of events.
What if the property only has on-street parking?
There is a separate grant for that. Households with on-street parking can get up to £500 towards a chargepoint together with a cross-pavement solution, a channel that carries the cable under the pavement to the kerb. It runs to the same 31 March 2027 deadline.[1]
For a landlord with terraced stock, or a renter whose “parking” is the street outside, this is the scheme to read up on. The hardware side, what cross-pavement channels are and which councils allow them, is covered in our guide to how to charge an electric car without a driveway.
How do you actually claim?
The same way for both grants: through the installer.
- Check your eligibility against the gov.uk guidance.[1]
- Renters: get the landlord’s written permission, naming both parties and the address.[3]
- Choose an OZEV-approved installer, who applies on your behalf.
- Wait for OZEV to confirm the application. Do not install anything yet.
- Install, and the grant comes off the invoice.
The scheme runs until 31 March 2027, but grant schemes have a habit of changing shape before their deadlines, as April 2026 proved. If you are eligible now, claiming now is the safer bet than assuming the terms hold. For the full background on the scheme, including who counts as a flat owner, see EV chargepoint grant explained.