Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund: Wave 2.2 (closed to applications)
Funding to improve the energy performance of social homes in England.
Applies to England
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Update: 14 February 2024
We have clarified our response to the following question: Will it be possible to lodge work under the old PAS standard? - see the Eligible installers section.
The Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund (SHDF) Wave 2.2 closed to applications on 31 January 2024.
About the Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund (SHDF)
The Fund will upgrade a significant amount of the social housing stock currently below Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) band C up to that standard. It will support the installation of energy performance measures in social homes in England, and 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 SHDF Wave 2.2 ‘top up’ competition will allocate up to £80 million of grant funding from April 2024, building on the allocations made under the previous Wave 2.1.
The grant funding for Wave 2.2 projects must be transferred to the grant recipient and spent by 31 March 2025. Projects may opt to deliver until 31 March 2026, where:
- the scale and ambition of the project requires this
- only co-funding is used in the final 12 months of delivery
Eligibility
Bidders
Wave 2.2 was open to:
- local authorities
- combined authorities
- registered providers of social housing (including housing associations and arms-length management organisations (ALMOs) that are registered providers)
- registered charities that own social housing
All eligible organisations could apply directly to Wave 2.2 either as single bidders or as the lead of a consortium.
The above organisations, along with ALMOs that are not registered providers, could apply as part of a consortium led by an organisation that is eligible to lead a bid.
Landlords who had successfully applied for funding through Wave 2.1 of the SHDF, and had a Grant Funding Agreement with DESNZ, either directly or as part of a consortium, were not eligible to apply for Wave 2.2 with their stock.
Properties
All existing social housing as defined by the Housing and Regeneration Act 2008 (sections 68-70), below EPC band C, regardless of archetype, were eligible.
All Wave 2.2 proposals should have included a minimum of 100 eligible social housing properties at EPC band D-G per bid.
Applicants wishing to apply to Wave 2.2 with fewer than 100 eligible social housing properties at EPC band D-G should have looked to submit a bid as part of a consortium that met the minimum threshold.
Recognising the shorter delivery window on Wave 2.2, if neither of the above were possible despite every effort, then applicants were able to submit a bid with fewer than 100 homes with strong justification.
Clarification questions
The deadline for enquiries was 3 November 2023. We shared appropriate questions and responses, last updated on 29 December 2023.
Help and support
If you have any enquiries about SHDF Wave 2.2, you can email: enquiries-shdf@salixfinance.co.uk.
Background
The fund follows on from:
- SHDF Wave 2.1, which allocated £778 million of government funding in March 2023. Wave 2.1 will see proposed energy performance improvements to around 90,000 social homes
- SHDF Wave 1, which will see energy performance improvements in up to 20,000 social housing properties, reducing bills and carbon emissions
- the SHDF Demonstrator, where up to 2,000 homes are being improved to at least EPC band C and over 1,000 local jobs supported
Last updated 14 February 2024 + show all updates
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Response to following question clarified: "Will it be possible to lodge work under the old PAS standard?".
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Now closed to applications.
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Competition guidance updated in relation to the PAS standards, and to reflect new closing date. New clarification questions added to Eligible installers section, marked 29 December 2023.
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Eligible social housing landlords now have until 31 January 2024 to submit applications.
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Republished the 'Application form - supplementary tables' spreadsheet with the correct timelines for tables 9 and 10.
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Updated: competition guidance, clarification questions (new questions 19, 20 added), application form and supplementary tables. Added: privacy notice.
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Added link to the Social Housing Retrofit Accelerator (SHRA) self assessment: find out what support is available to help you bid for SHDF Wave 2.2.
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Added draft copies of Grant Funding Agreement, Application form, Supplementary tables and Project risk register template.
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First published.