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About the Fund Finder

The aim of the Good Homes Fund Finder is to help different stakeholder groups find appropriate financial incentives to afford more sustainable outcomes – be it developers embarking on sustainable new build, homeowners considering retrofit, or councils reviewing their council homes.

This resource identifies incentives and compliance frameworks, the cost of performance uplifts and an understanding of their effectiveness in different scenarios for new and existing homes in the UK.

This tool follows on from the Green Shift report (see more information below) and is available to GHA members only. Please let us know your feedback by emailing

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Open the tool using the link below (login required), then select the options you are interested in from the drop down list to the right of each green cell. If no results are found, that means we do not yet have any incentives for the options you have selected.

Use ‘Ctr’ and the plus (+) or minus (-) keys to resize the table to fit your screen.

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Please note that all information included in the tool is indicative, provided in good faith, and not intended for any project specific investigation. Use of the information is done entirely at your own risk and no guarantee is given as to its suitability.

*This version of the tool is available to GHA members and invited guests only. To access, please sign up for a Knowledge Base user account or log in. If you have any queries please contact Richard Broad:

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The Green Shift report

As part of our ‘Build Net Zero Now’ campaign Finance working group in October 2023 we launched a report – “The Green Shift – The existing financial incentives for higher environmental performance of new homes”, authored by Rafe Bertram.

The document was an exploration to see if a ‘tipping point’ has been reached, one where existing financial incentives provide high levels of environmental sustainability in a way that are financially advantageous for all stakeholders, and if this route is now the most financially viable option.

The Green Shift

It is fifteen years since Professor Sir Peter Hall and Dr Nicholas Falk drew on study tours run by the Town & Country Planning Association (TCPA) to Dutch and German urban extensions to recommend what needed to change in the UK. David Rudlin and Nicholas went on to apply lessons from cities such as Amersfoort and Freiburg to win the 2014 Wolfson Economics Prize. They showed how a city like Oxford could double its population by applying garden city principles without depending on government subsidy. With a Labour Government committed to boosting economic growth and building affordable and sustainable homes, the URBED Trust has compiled articles from Town and Country Planning on practical solutions. Please read and ask yourself and your colleagues Why not now?

This document is a compilation of nine papers orginally published by the Town and Country Planning Association (TCPA) and reproduced in this report with their permission. Each article has links to other relevant material.

The new introduction provides a valuable summary and the final article, written by Richard Simmons in 2024, looks at how lessons from these articles could be combined with other opportunities to deliver growth and new homes faster.

Contents:

Funding large-scale new settlements
Urban policy and new economic powerhouses
Achieving smarter growth in London and the South East
Planning for posterity
Location, location, location – funding investment in local infrastructure
Sharing the uplift in land values (executive summary)
Planning rapid transit for urban recovery
Harnessing towns and cities for better growth
Why not here?
Six steps for accelerating delivery by Dr Richard Simmons

Authors: Nicholas Falk, Richard Simmons.

Publication date: July 2024

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Further information: https://urbedtrust.com/