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Apply for Wave 1 of the Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund (1 October 2021)
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Apply for Wave 1 of the Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund
Registered providers of social housing can apply for funding to improve the energy performance of their social homes.
- From:
- Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
- Published
- 16 June 2021
- Last updated
- 1 October 2021 — See all updates
Applies to England
Documents
Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund: competition guidance notes
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Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund: Wave 1 application form
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Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund: questions and answers
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Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund: draft memorandum of understanding
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Slides from pre-launch webinar (August 2021)
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Details
Update 1 October 2021
We have made a minor update to the application form:
- formulas in Table 4 corrected
Previous minor updates:
- guidance wording for question 3G updated to better reflect the competition guidance
- conditional formatting on Table 9a corrected
Registered providers of social housing (including private and local authority providers) can apply to Wave 1 of the Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund (SHDF) to support the installation of energy performance measures in social homes in England. Up to £160 million is available.
The SHDF will upgrade a significant amount of social housing stock to an Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) rating of C. Wave 1 projects will follow a worst first, fabric first, lowest regrets approach to improving the energy performance of social housing by 31 January 2023.
The fund will help:
- deliver warm, energy-efficient homes
- reduce carbon emissions
- tackle fuel poverty
- support green jobs
- develop the retrofit sector
- improve the comfort, health and well-being of social housing tenants
The fund follows on from the Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund Demonstrator, where over 2,300 homes were improved to EPC Band C and at least 1,300 local jobs were supported.
The SHDF supports the Prime Minister’s 10 point plan for a green industrial revolution and makes further progress towards delivering the government’s commitment to invest in the energy performance of homes.
How to apply for funding
Applications for Wave 1 are now open.
Applications must be led by a local authority. If you are a private registered provider of social housing (including a housing association), you must apply as part of a consortium with a lead local authority in England.
To apply:
- read the competition guidance and associated questions and answers document
- complete an application form
- submit the completed application form and required attachments to the Ricardo Application Portal by 11:59 pm on 15 October 2021
Update: 9 September 2021
We have:
- responded to further questions in the questions and answers document
- updated the application form to remove the ‘milestone and cost profile’ checkbox in the Introduction section
Published 16 June 2021
Last updated 1 October 2021 + show all updates