On 7th February, the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy announced the names of the 69 local authorities that had made successful bids for £179 million allocated via Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund (SHDF) Wave 1 funding.
In January 2022, SBS received written confirmation that its bid for Lot 1 of the £750m Fusion 21 Decarbonisation Framework had been successful.
Lot 1 is titled ‘Whole House Decarbonisation,’ and, in all, it could be worth up to £500 million. It will fund whole-house retrofit solutions including insulation, ventilation, renewable energy and associated general improvement works. More specifically, these measures are likely to include:
In late December 2021, Lee Rowley MP, representative of North East Derbyshire, visited a series of homes recently improved by SBS under the Green Homes Grant Local Authority Delivery (LAD) scheme.
Mr Rowley was accompanied on his tour by Niall Clark, Director of Property Services and Development (Rykneld Homes), Helen Brown Head of Development and Regeneration (Rykneld Homes) and Councillor Jeremy Kenyon - North East Derbyshire District Council Member with responsibility for Climate Change.
In December 2021, SBS began the 2nd phase of an energy efficiency retrofit project (Norcot Estate) in Reading, following on from the successful delivery of Phase 1. The work is scheduled to run into the summer of 2022 and will entail improvements to 31 properties – a mix of semi-detached, mid- and end-terrace properties, with a value of approx. £1.6m - £1.8m.
The scheme has been commissioned and funded by Reading Borough Council, and is being delivered in accordance with the requirements of PAS2030:2019 / PAS 2035:2019.
In November 2021, Denbighshire County Council wrote to SBS to confirm the award of Lot 1 of its Council Housing Major External Repairs scheme for 2021/22. The works will comprise repairs and energy efficiency improvements to a total of 50 occupied council dwellings in Rhyl, North Wales.
Works will typically entail the installation of replacement roof coverings, rainwater goods, facias and soffits, together with external re-rendering, re-decoration and the re-pointing of brickwork.
