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The Decent Homes Standard (DHS) still provides major
contract opportunities for those contractors,
consultants and product companies targeting the social
housing sector. A
substantial amount of housing stock within the UK still
requires an extensive amount of modernisation; the
latest figures show approximately 274,000 homes are
below the Standard in England alone.
England Refurbishment
Programmes Continuing with DHS Backlog Funding
·
Decent Homes Programmes will continue until at least
2014/15 with 46 Local Authorities receiving Decent Homes
Backlog funding.
·
Funding is
intended to bring 150,000 homes up to the Decent Homes
Standard.
· Those LAs and ALMOs with less than 10% of their housing
stock failing to meet the Standard were not considered
eligible, but were able to bid on an exceptional basis.
In total,
approximately £1.6 billion has been allocated over the
2011/12 – 2014/15 period. Allocations for 2011/12 and
2012/13 are confirmed, while allocations over 2013/14
and 2014/15 are currently indicative. The breakdown of
total funding allocated over the four year period is as
follows:
-
2011/12: £260 million
-
2012/13: £352 million
-
2013/14: £389 million (indicative)
- 2014/15: £594 million (indicative)
It is worth noting that a number of LAs that did not
secure funding still have considerable amounts of stock
in a non-decent condition. Therefore the 150,000 homes
targeted with Backlog funding by no means represents the
entirety of work remaining under the Decent Homes Programme. In addition, many Housing Associations (HAs)
are still carrying out Decent Homes works to housing
stock, with the latest available figures showing that
approximately 55,000 homes owned by HAs were non-decent,
as at 1st April 2011.
LAs and ALMOs
with less than 10% of stock failing to meet the DHS are
now expected to fund DHS programmes themselves via Major Repairs Allowance and
their own resources. For further information on this,
please visit our
Maintenance Opportunities page. |
