Compliance
Our Compliance frameworks are clever, agile and really embrace building safety.
Our Compliance frameworks are clever, agile and really embrace building safety.
Asbestos inspections & testing
Water hygiene risk assessments
Fire safety frameworks
Heating & water hygiene
Frameworks that connect you with experienced consultants ready to support your projects.
Asset & development consultancy
Compliance consultancy
We've a number of frameworks to support your development projects.
Our framework covers fully managed, secure, flexible and auditable electronic payment services.
We've two frameworks that can help with your facilities management.
Our repairs and maintenance frameworks support all aspects of your asset management strategies.
Internal & external building works
Frameworks to help you design, deliver and maintain whole-house energy efficiency measures.
Zero carbon solutions
Electric vehicle charging
Mechanical ventilation
Domestic air source heat pumps
Communal air source heat pumps
Domestic ground source heat pumps
Solar thermal & PV
23 August 2021
What is the Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund (SHDF)?
The SHDF will see the Government deliver £3.8bn in grants over a 10-year period to support social housing providers decarbonise their stock.
The Government has announced up to £160m for the first wave of the SHDF. Applications for this first wave of funding are open today (23 August).
You can apply for the fund here – Apply for Wave 1 of the Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund – GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
What is the funding for and how will we be assessed?
The main focus of this wave of funding is fabric first. Low carbon heating can be included as long as the technology is installed alongside fabric improvements. It will not support the delivery of renewable heating/power unless the home has been insulated first.
Government are looking for applicants to focus on their worst properties first and in a high volume. All social housing archetypes are included.
There is a scaled cost cap approach – RPs much contribute a minimum of 1/3 of total project costs.
Projects will be assessed on three key areas:
Who can apply?
The application must be led by a Local Authority in England. However:
If you’re a RP SEC could help you with this – our Members include Local Authorities in the South East. Please talk to us if you’d like help getting in contact with your Local Authority to organise your bid.
What are the timescales?
The application form and guidance will be published by the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy today.
This is a tight deadline and will give successful applicants 1 year to procure a partner and deliver the project.
SEC can help
Our Zero Carbon framework will be Client-ready in September/October 2021. The new framework will provide you with a quick, compliant route to market for the works.
Using a framework could also help you to demonstrate the assessment criteria –
Once the framework is live you can speak to us about preparing a tender or provisional programme. This can give you assurance that your documents are ready to go as quickly as possible once the funds are agreed in January.
If you’d like to speak to us about any of this in more detail please get in touch. Our Head of Business Partnerships, David Smith has researched the fund and is ready to provide advice to Members – david.smith@southeastconsortium.org.uk.
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