The October 2022 edition of Inside Housing magazine features an article by Rykneld Homes. Titled “On Time and On Target – Green Homes Delivery Success,” it reports on the timely completion of a £12 million, large-scale decarbonisation project funded by the Green Homes Grant Local Authority Delivery (LAD) scheme.
It’s always nice to be appreciated, so we were pleased to see an article published by the Social Housing Retrofit Accelerator, which focused on the benefits reported by a resident of one of our most recent decarbonisation schemes.
SBS is currently delivering an energy efficiency retrofit scheme in the Wyke district of Bradford on behalf of the social housing provider Incommunities Limited. The work is being delivered under the Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund (Wave 1). It entails fitting new windows and doors, removing incorrectly installed external wall insulation (EWI) and replacing it with a new EWI system on 35 properties.
On a second, related scheme, also based in Wyke, we will be undertaking similar works on 72 properties, while simultaneously installing new replacement roofs.
At the end of September 2022, the UK government announced additional funding for Phase 2 of the Home Upgrade Grant (HUG) scheme. Worth up to £700 million, it will operate in tandem with the previously announced Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund (SHDF) Wave 2 funding, which will have a value of up to £800 million. The total of available energy efficiency funding has therefore now been raised to £1.5 billion.
The Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund Wave 2.1 competition officially opened to bids on Thursday 30 September 2022. The competition will remain open for 7 weeks, closing on 18 November 2022.
