Norwich heat network zone

Norwich has no city-wide network but many small ones: the February 2025 report counts 45 communal networks, plus campus systems at the University of East Anglia and the community hospital. The council's climate programme for 2026 to 2035 refers to a £100m citywide heat network.

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)

10 possible zones, two of them strategic. Smaller zones cover industrial estates and campuses.

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 Norwich.

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.

• 45 communal networks and campus networks at UEA and Norwich Community Hospital

  Source: Heat network zone opportunity report: Norwich (by Greenfield Nordic)

• 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: Norwich (by Greenfield Nordic) — Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, 14 February 2025

Record last checked 8 November 2026.