Struggling Green Homes Grant Scheme Scrapped
Green Homes Grant (GHG), the government voucher scheme to help towards the cost of installing energy efficiency measures, was scrapped last Wednesday (31st March). Initially extended till March 2022, GHG was touted as UK’s answer to ‘build back greener’. But the scheme has struggled from the start with poor installer capacity, slow application processing times, and delayed payments.
The goal of the programme was to reach 600,000 homes. Out of the 123,000 applications received by the end of February, only 28,000 vouchers have been issued and only 5,800 energy efficiency measures had been installed.
The £300m previously allocated for the GHG will now go into a programme administered by local authorities, Local Authority Delivery Scheme, targeted at lower income households.