Smart heating controls and environmental monitoring are eligible measures under England’s major social housing retrofit schemes. Verity qualifies — and provides the independent evidence those schemes increasingly require.
The Warm Homes Plan — published January 2026 with £13.2 billion committed — consolidates England’s retrofit funding into a coherent programme running to 2030. For social housing providers, the primary route is the Warm Homes: Social Housing Fund.
England’s primary retrofit scheme for registered social landlords and local authorities. Delivery window opened April 2025. Heating controls account for 8% of all installations reported to August 2026. Smart heating controls are explicitly eligible.
The Energy Company Obligation scheme continues until December 2026. Smart heating controls eligible alongside heat pump and insulation installations. No new delivery target set after this date; successor scheme expected.
£500m over 2025–2028, delivered through local councils. Eligible measures include wall insulation, heat pumps, solar panels, and smart heating controls. Properties EPC D–G, income-qualifying households.
Awaab’s Law Phase 2 (30 November 2026) extends mandatory monitoring to excess cold as one of seven hazard categories in social housing. Environmental monitoring is no longer optional for compliant social landlords after this date.
Verity qualifies under Warm Homes: SHF and ECO4 in two categories simultaneously — as a smart heating control deployed alongside heat pump or fabric installations, and as an environmental monitoring technology that continuously measures temperature, humidity, and occupancy.
That dual qualification means Verity can be funded as part of a wider retrofit package rather than as a standalone cost. The independent M&V evidence it produces is then available for funder submissions, audit, and compliance with BS 40101 Building Performance Evaluation requirements.
🎯 Heating controls are 8% of all WH:SHF installations reported to August 2026. Schemes that include independent monitoring evidence are better positioned to demonstrate post-retrofit performance at audit.
Verity sensors qualify as smart heating controls under WH:SHF and ECO4 — eligible for funding alongside heat pump and fabric installations.
Continuous temperature, humidity, and occupancy monitoring — providing the environmental evidence Awaab’s Law Phase 2 requires for excess cold from November 2026.
Pre and post retrofit baselines, continuous across the programme. Independent under BS 40101 — no retrofit delivery interest, no conflict, defensible at audit.
Wave 3 of the Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund was oversubscribed by over £1 billion. The bids that succeeded included evidenced per-household consumption baselines. Those that modelled estimates were weaker.
Verity provides those baselines from the day sensors are installed — continuously, independently, and in a form that WH:SHF auditors and the Regulator of Social Housing can rely on.
“The evidence layer qualifies as an ancillary delivery cost inside your Warm Homes grant — not a charge against your operational budget.”
Whether you’re preparing a bid, need to evidence an existing programme, or want to understand how Verity fits into your funding application — a short conversation is enough to find out.
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