The funding will enable Clarion to upgrade 5,300 energy inefficient homes
A consortium of social housing providers, led by THF member Clarion Housing Group, has been awarded £48.9m to upgrade the energy efficiency of thousands of hard-to-heat homes across the country.
Clarion will now join fellow providers Accent Housing, Worthing Homes, Southdown Housing and BHT Sussex to upgrade 6,004 homes within their shared portfolio as part of the nationwide retrofit programme.
Some 5,300 of these homes belong to Clarion, which used its scale and expertise to support the partnering providers and bid on behalf of the five-strong consortium last year.
The multimillion-pound grant forms part of the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero’s Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund.
The latest grant is taken from the second wave of funding (known as Wave 2.1) which has been allocated to charitable social housing providers across England. Clarion’s grant is the largest award given to any single local authority or organisation through this current wave.
Clarion’s work on SHDF Wave 1 with supply chain partners United Living and fellow THF members Bailey Garner and Equans, won a prestigious industry award recently, in recognition of its excellence in social housing retrofit.
Wave 1 will complete by 30 June 2023, and work to retrofit homes through Wave 2.1 is expected to conclude in September 2025
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