Coventry heat network zone

Coventry has run its Heatline network, fed by heat from the city's energy-from-waste plant, for more than a decade. A November 2025 council briefing set out proposals to extend the operating concession to 2043. The February 2025 report centres the main zone on everything inside the ring road.

1. September 2024

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   Listed among the 28 places in the government's heat network zoning pilot, which published its first outputs in September 2024.

   Source: Heat networks zoning pilot (GOV.UK)

The strategic zones are the City Centre, covering everything inside the ring road, Walsgrave, Torrington Avenue and the University of Warwick.

Candidate areas come from government-commissioned studies and council work. They are not legal boundaries. A zone’s boundary is fixed only when it is designated under the zoning regulations.

We have found no appointed or bidding developer for Coventry.

No statutory zone developer can be appointed until a zone is designated. Partners appointed by councils before then are listed as development or delivery partners.

• Heatline · Coventry District Energy Company

  Source: Heatline District Heating Update (Coventry City Council, Nov 2025)

• University of Warwick campus network · University of Warwick

  Source: Heat network zone opportunity report: Coventry (by Arcadis)

• 14 Feb 2025First 15 zone opportunity reports published
• 23 Sep 2024First zoning pilot outputs: heat network zone maps

1. Heat networks zoning pilot (updated 25 November 2025) — Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, 25 November 2025
2. Heat network zone opportunity report: Coventry (by Arcadis) — Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, 14 February 2025

Record last checked 8 November 2026.