diff --git a/.github/ci-gradle.properties b/.github/ci-gradle.properties
deleted file mode 100644
index 338bfa80..00000000
--- a/.github/ci-gradle.properties
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-org.gradle.daemon=true
-org.gradle.configureondemand=true
-org.gradle.jvmargs=-Xmx2048m -XX:MaxPermSize=512m -XX:+HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8
-org.gradle.caching=true
diff --git a/.github/workflows/pull_request.yml b/.github/workflows/pull_request.yml
index fc8b047c..def00d26 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pull_request.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pull_request.yml
@@ -20,9 +20,6 @@ jobs:
     - name: Checkout repository
       uses: actions/checkout@c952173edf28a2bd22e1a4926590c1ac39630461
 
-    - name: Copy CI gradle.properties
-      run: mkdir -p ~/.gradle ; cp .github/ci-gradle.properties ~/.gradle/gradle.properties
-
     - uses: burrunan/gradle-cache-action@v1
       name: Run unit tests
       with: