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Meeting The New Decent Homes Standard - The Critical Role Of Asset Strategy and Compliant Procurement

07/02/2026

CHIC

By Liam Gratty, Director of Strategic Services, CHIC

The UK Government has now released the long anticipated revised Decent Homes Standard (DHS). A modernised set of quality criteria that social and private rented homes must meet by 2035. The updated DHS drives a step change in expectations for housing condition, safety, energy performance, ventilation, and overall resident wellbeing. This represents a major shift for social housing providers tasked with delivering measurable improvements across thousands of homes over the coming decade.

At the same time, delivery challenges have heightened due to cost pressures, labour market constraints, evolving energy performance expectations, and the need to align with wider regulatory requirements such as the Building Safety Act and minimum energy performance standards.

Against this backdrop, effective procurement strategies, and in particular the use of established procurement frameworks are critical to ensuring that social landlords can plan, fund and deliver improvements efficiently, compliantly, and sustainably.

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