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Refurbishment: Opportunities 

 

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.

                                                              

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