On 18th March 2024 the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero announced the list of the successful lead social housing landlord bids for funding under Wave 2.2 of the Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund (SHDF).

In total £75 million has been offered to 42 projects for Wave 2.2 of the Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund. Match funding from Wave 2.2 applicants provides an additional £139 million.

In total grant funding has been allocated to organisations as follows (organised alphabetically) with all funding figures rounded to the nearest £100,000.
 

1. A2 Dominion Ltd £829,000
2. Babergh and Mid Suffolk District Councils £1,593,000
3. Birnbeck Housing Association £52,000
4. Blackpool Council £500,000
5. Calico Homes Limited £1,289,000
6. Chelmer Housing Partnership Ltd £604,000
7. Cheshire West and Chester £1,500,000
8. East Devon District Council £1,872,000
9. Enfield Council £3,460,000
10. Gentoo Group Ltd £2,845,000
11. Gravesham Borough Council £373,000
12. Great Yarmouth Borough Council £1,378,000
13. LB Waltham Forest £1,449,000
14. Lewes District Council £2,348,000
15. London Borough of Barking and Dagenham £1,028,000
16. London Borough of Haringey £1,758,000
17. London Borough of Hillingdon £2,759,000
18. London Borough of Lambeth £2,493,000
19. MHS Homes Limited £383,000
20. North West Leicestershire District Council £2,767,000
21. North Yorkshire Council £1,772,000
22. Norwich City Council £2,433,000
23. Ongo Homes £2,265,000
24. Places for People £1,797,000
25. Populo Living Limited on behalf of London Borough of Newham £3,831,000
26. Portsmouth City Council £1,909,000
27. RHP Group £2,617,000
28. Runnymede Borough Council £1,250,000
29. Shepherds Bush Housing Group Limited £2,244,000
30. Shropshire Towns & Rural Housing Limited £812,000
31. Silva Homes £1,428,000
32. Slough Borough Council £1,301,000
33. Stoke on Trent City Council £1,396,000
34. Tandridge District Council £849,000
35. The Cambridge Housing Society Ltd £949,000
36. Thurrock Council £3,982,000
37. Uttlesford District Council £3,803,000
38. Walsall Housing Group £1,679,000
39. Wandle Housing Association £1,018,000
40. Waverley Borough Council £279,000
41. Wealden District Council £1,473,000
42. Wolverhampton City Council £5,127,000

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 was planned to 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

SHDF 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.
 

SHDF Eligibility - 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.
 

SHDF - The History

SHDF Wave 2.2 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