Government reveals benficiaries of £1.29Bn warm homes fund

Some £1.29bn has been offered to retrofit social homes across 144 projects under Warm Homes: Social Housing Fund Wave 3.

This includes funding offered for:

• 17 Strategic Partnership projects
• 127 Challenge Fund projects

The West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA) and the Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA) will be receiving an allocation of this funding as part of the first Integrated Settlements.

The government said the ‘Warm Homes: Social Housing Fund Wave 3’ builds on the allocations made under the previous waves of the ‘Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund’, which brought social housing stock with an energy performance certificate below band C up to that standard.

This latest funding 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.

Stuart Gadsden, Commercial Director for Social Housing at Kensa, said: “For thousands of people, previous decarbonisation funding has been life-changing, turning cold, inefficient homes into warm, comfortable places to live while cutting out the burden of high energy bills. Earlier waves and initiatives have transformed social housing, with nearly three-quarters of homes now rated EPC A-C – clear proof that these measures work.

“This latest funding will once again demonstrate that decarbonising heat and improving energy efficiency at scale is the right path forward. Thousands more homes will be upgraded, shielding residents from fuel poverty while driving the UK’s transition to cleaner, more sustainable heating.

“The focus on decarbonising flats in this latest wave is critical. Flats have often been seen as ‘complex to decarbonise’, yet they are some of the homes most in need of energy efficiency improvements. Whether it’s Edwardian-era flats in central London or 1960s tower blocks in Thurrock, Kensa has proven that switching to heat pumps works, bringing real benefits to residents, their homes, and their communities.” 

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