Major contractors and energy companies echo Housing Forum and National Housing Federation in saying releasing funding would “give greater confidence” to decarbonisation industry
The National Home Decarbonisation Group (NHDG) has called on the government to release the full £3.8bn Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund (SHDF) in next week’s Autumn Statement.
The NHDG, which consists of several major contractors and energy companies, has urged the government to release all the funding for the scheme in one go, rather than continue to allocate it gradually through successive ’waves;.
It argues opening up the funding in full would create greater confidence and certainty in the retrofit supply chain.
The NHDG is made up of retrofit contractors, and energy an