Lancaster heat network zone

Lancaster's heat demand clusters around its universities and the Royal Lancaster Infirmary, each with its own campus network. The council began a feasibility study in 2022, before the zoning pilot outputs. The June 2025 report adds Morecambe as a strategic zone.

1. September 2024

   1Pilot

   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 Lancaster City Centre, Morecambe and Lancaster South, with a smaller zone at White Lund.

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 Lancaster.

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.

• Campus networks at Lancaster University, the University of Cumbria and the Royal Lancaster Infirmary

  Source: Heat network zone opportunity report: Lancaster (by AECOM and Anthesis)

• 2 Jun 2025Remaining 13 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: Lancaster (by AECOM and Anthesis) — Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, 2 June 2025

Record last checked 8 November 2026.