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Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund: Wave 1 (closed to applications)

Registered providers of social housing can apply for funding to improve the energy performance of their social homes.

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The Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund is closed to applications.

Applies to England

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SHDF: Wave 1 – privacy notice

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Applications for Wave 1 of the Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund are now closed.

See details of the successful bids.

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

The SHDF Wave 1 competition closed to applications in October 2021.

Updates to this page

Published 16 June 2021
Last updated 21 October 2021 + show all updates
  1. Applications are closed.

  2. We have uploaded the declaration form questions (2O, 2P, 2Q) as a separate sheet.

  3. We have made further corrections to the formulas in Table 4 of the application form.

  4. Application form updated: formulas in Table 4 corrected.

  5. Application form republished with minor amendments: guidance wording for question 3G updated to better reflect the competition guidance; conditional formatting on Table 9a corrected.

  6. We have updated the questions and answers document to provide further answers on eligible properties and measures, mixed tenure, modelling at bid stage, funding and the application process.

  7. Applications to Wave 1 of the Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund are now open. Applications close at 23:59pm on 15 October 2021.

  8. First published.

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