EPC Blackpool
We carry out domestic Energy Performance Certificates across Blackpool and the FY postcodes, with a large share of the work coming from landlords and letting agents rather than house sales.
The assessment is done in person by an Elmhurst-accredited domestic energy assessor and lodged on the national EPC register, valid for ten years from the day it is entered.
Accredited, registered and regulated
£65 for up to 3 bedrooms.
Then £5 for each additional bedroom — £70 for a four-bed, £75 for a five-bed. Paid in full when you book, with nothing to pay on the day and no deposit.
Which parts of Blackpool do you cover?
All of Blackpool. FY1 covers the town centre and the Talbot, Brunswick, Claremont and Bloomfield wards; FY2 runs north through Bispham, Ingthorpe and Greenlands; FY3 takes in Layton and Marton; and FY4 covers South Shore, Hawes Side, Highfield and Clifton. We also work across FY5, FY6 and FY8 into Cleveleys, Thornton, Poulton and Lytham St Annes, which fall under Wyre and Fylde councils.
What Blackpool housing means for your EPC
Blackpool’s stock is unusual for Lancashire, and it changes what an EPC visit involves. The 2021 census records 39.4% semi-detached and 29.5% terraced, but only 9.6% detached — roughly half Preston’s detached share. Small and mid-sized properties dominate, which keeps most assessments at the entry price.
The real difference is conversions. 5.6% of Blackpool households live in a converted or shared house including bedsits — nearly three times Preston’s 2.1% — and another 1.6% live in commercial buildings such as flats over shops. That is the legacy of the guest-house trade: large Victorian and Edwardian properties, particularly across FY1 and FY4, subdivided into self-contained flats and HMOs. Each self-contained flat needs its own EPC, assessed on its own heat-loss perimeter, its own heating and its own glazing. A landlord with a converted six-flat property needs six certificates, not one, and we price and book them together.
Exposure is the other local factor, and it is one you will not find on a national price-comparison page. Blackpool is a highly exposed coastal location, and we see noticeably less filled cavity wall here than inland. Severe wind-driven rain is the reason: where exposure is high, filling a cavity can carry moisture across to the inner leaf, so cavities are often deliberately left unfilled or were never suitable to begin with. For the certificate this matters twice over — the wall is recorded as it actually is, and cavity fill may not be an appropriate recommendation for the property even though it would be on an identical house ten miles inland.
Tenure is what drives the volume. Blackpool is 31.8% privately rented against Preston’s 22.4% — one of the higher private-rented shares in the North West. Nearly a third of the town’s households are in a property where the landlord needs a valid certificate before letting, and where the minimum energy efficiency standard for rented homes applies directly.
Housing mix and tenure figures: ONS Census 2021, tables TS044 and TS054, Blackpool local authority.
Why people in Blackpool book an EPC
Letting a property
The most common reason here. A valid EPC is needed before a tenancy starts and is the evidence the property meets the minimum standard for rented homes.
Converted flats and HMOs
Each self-contained unit needs its own certificate. We assess multiple flats in one visit where the access allows.
Selling
The certificate must be commissioned before the property goes on the market.
Agents managing a portfolio
Several properties booked together, assessed in one round, each lodged separately.
EPCs in Blackpool, answered.
- How much is an EPC in Blackpool?
- £65 for up to three bedrooms, then £5 per additional bedroom. Most Blackpool flats and terraces fall at the £65 entry price. The full amount is paid online when you book — no deposit, nothing to pay on the day.
- I have a converted property with several flats. Do I need one EPC or several?
- One for each self-contained flat. Each unit is assessed on its own — its own walls exposed to outside, its own heating and controls, its own windows — so a converted six-flat house produces six separate certificates. Tell us how many units there are when you book and we will arrange them together, which is quicker for you and for us.
- Why do fewer Blackpool houses have filled cavity walls?
- Exposure. Blackpool sits in a severe wind-driven-rain zone, and in those conditions filling a cavity can let moisture bridge to the inner wall. So cavities here are often left unfilled by design, or were never suitable for filling. We record the wall as we find it, and we will not recommend cavity fill where the property’s exposure makes it inappropriate.
- I am a landlord with several properties. Can you do them in one go?
- Yes, and it is most of what we do here. Give us the addresses and the number of bedrooms in each and we will price the batch and book them into as few visits as the access allows. Each property is still assessed individually and lodged under its own certificate.
- Does a flat above a shop need a different kind of EPC?
- It needs a domestic EPC like any other home, but the assessment is different in practice. The floor sits above a commercial space rather than another dwelling or the ground, and that changes how heat loss is recorded. It is worth mentioning when you book so we allow the right amount of time.
- My property has electric storage heaters. Will that hurt the rating?
- Usually yes, and it is common in converted Blackpool flats where there is no gas supply to the individual unit. Electric heating carries a higher cost and carbon factor in the calculation than mains gas. Where the rating needs lifting, the improvements that tend to move it most are insulation and better heating controls rather than replacing the heaters outright.
Book your Blackpool EPC.
Order online in a couple of minutes, or call and we’ll take the details over the phone. Either way the certificate is lodged on the national register and emailed to you.