Families in social housing in Hertfordshire are to benefit from warmer homes and lower fuel bills thanks to successful bids to the Government’s Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund (SHDF) for social housing landlords. This will see energy-efficiency improvements worth more than £105m made to social housing properties across the county by September 2025.
£40m funding was secured across seven bids from Hertfordshire, bringing the total fund allocation including match funding to £105m – one of the highest allocations outside of London. The successful bids include:
View the full list of successful bids.
Steve Woodcock, Chief Executive of B3Living and Hertfordshire LEP Board member, said: "This is a significant level of investment for us and couldn’t come at a more important moment when we urgently need to lower our customers’ cost of living and take bigger steps to protect our environment.
“It is also a testament to what partnership working at a local level and taking an innovative approach can achieve. Working collaboratively with the Greener Herts partnership allows community-based landlords, like B3Living, to achieve much more. We see it as a great advert for the housing sector that four outward-looking providers have come together to make a real difference across the county.”
The Hertfordshire bidders were successful in the Wave 2.1 competition which was open to bidders from local and combined authorities and social housing providers. A total of £778m has been offered to 107 projects for Wave 2.1, with match funding providing an additional £1.1bn.
Helen Pollock, Clean Growth Manager at Hertfordshire LEP, said: “This investment provides a fantastic opportunity for Hertfordshire by helping to lift some of our families most in need out of fuel poverty and create wider opportunities for a variety of trades and supply chain SMEs to step up and meet the retrofit and greener homes challenge. We need to mobilise a ‘green army’ now if Hertfordshire is serious about cutting greenhouse emissions, starting with the worst offenders – our homes.”
Hertfordshire LEP is planning a series of events with further education colleges, construction and supply chain industries to raise awareness of the opportunities and help plug retrofit training and skills gaps. The first event on 16th May will focus on skills retrofit training, with future events aimed at developing the retrofit sector in Herts to help make our current housing stock more energy efficient.
This investment provides wider opportunities for a variety of trades and supply chain SMEs to step up and meet the retrofit and greener homes challenge. We need to mobilise a ‘green army’ now if Hertfordshire is serious about cutting greenhouse emissions, starting with the worst offenders – our homes.
This investment provides wider opportunities for a variety of trades and supply chain SMEs to step up and meet the retrofit and greener homes challenge. We need to mobilise a ‘green army’ now if Hertfordshire is serious about cutting greenhouse emissions, starting with the worst offenders – our homes.