Apartment owners’ association insulation grant

The VvE applies collectively; individual apartment owners cannot apply. For the prerequisite VvE-aanbod, more than half the homes must be owner-occupied. Homes must have energy label D or worse and/or at least two poorly insulated components, with a WOZ valuation no higher than €477,000 or below the municipality’s average valuation. The Bunnik page gives €576,000 as its local 2022, 2023 or 2024 reference.

For this insulation grant, each counted apartment must be owned and occupied by an adult who is recorded as owner in the land register and registered as resident at that address. Its January 2022, 2023 or 2024 WOZ valuation must be no more than €576,000. This entry covers buildings built before 1995, with at least two poorly insulated components. The apartment must physically adjoin the component being insulated; for insulation on the inside or outside wall surface, all otherwise eligible apartments may count. Sheds, garages and other outbuildings are excluded. For the two-component test, the four categories are floor/ground; walls including cavities; roof/attic floor; and glass/windows. Parts within one category do not count as two separate categories.

Poor insulation means: a roof with less than 9 cm insulation and Rc ≤2.0; an attic floor without insulation and Rc ≤0.5; a wall without cavity insulation, an insulated inner lining or exterior insulation and Rc ≤1.1; a floor/ground with less than 5 cm insulation and Rc ≤1.3; or single, old double or HR glazing with U ≥1.6. Rc measures the whole component’s insulation performance; Rd measures the added insulation material, with higher values insulating better. U measures heat passing through glazing, with lower values insulating better.

Your contractor’s specification must meet these rules for the existing heated building envelope:

• Roof or attic-floor insulation: cover at least 70% of the whole roof area, with added-material Rd ≥3.5 m²K/W, or ≥2.5 for a monument.
• Wall insulation on the inside or outside: average at least 10 m² per apartment, with Rd ≥3.5, or ≥2.5 for a monument.
• Cavity walls: average at least 10 m² per apartment, with Rd ≥1.1.
• Floor or ground insulation: cover at least 70% of the whole floor or ground area, with Rd ≥3.5.
• HR++ glazing: average at least 3 m² per apartment, U ≤1.2 W/m²K; accompanying new panels must have U ≤1.2 and doors U ≤1.5.
• Triple glazing: average at least 3 m² per apartment, U ≤0.7, together with a new insulating frame U ≤1.5; accompanying panels must have U ≤0.7 and doors U ≤1.0.
• Monument apartments: average at least 3 m² per apartment of high-performance glass or secondary glazing U ≤3.0, with accompanying panels U ≤3.0 or doors U ≤2.0; alternatively, replace glass or fit secondary glazing U ≤2.0, with accompanying panels and doors U ≤2.0. The regulation’s latter alternative does not state the 3 m² minimum.

For roof, cavity-wall and floor/ground insulation, locally sprayed PIR or PUR must use HFC-free blowing agents, and UF foam is prohibited. When counting HR++ glazing area, measure the full element from inside, including its frame. Panels and doors can be added to the area, but glass must always be replaced.

Work must protect wildlife and have the necessary public and private permissions. Before starting, notify the municipality using its SMP permission form. A species management plan (SMP) sets rules protecting animals during work; cavity insulation near bat maternity roosts may be prohibited or conditional.

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• First use the VvE-aanbod; complete municipal applications are considered until the €50,000 budget is exhausted. The regulation expires on 1 January 2029.

Register your VvE for an intake through VvE-Energiepunt’s form, selecting Bunnik. DVvE contacts you and starts with an intake conversation and orientation scan; have building drawings, your MJOP and recent annual accounts for that stage. Use the VvE-aanbod before the board submits the municipal grant application through “Online aanvragen” on the official page. Download and complete its “Gegevens per appartement” apartment-details attachment and include it with your application.

The general municipal rules require an application at least six weeks before the planned start, unless a programme sets another deadline.

The municipal application needs your VvE’s registration and bank details, building year and monument status where relevant, apartment addresses and WOZ values, areas to insulate and adjoining components. Attach the splitting deed, MJOP, evidence of at least two poorly insulated components, and the owners’ general meeting decision approving the work and grant application. Evidence can be energy label D or worse per apartment, a building survey, a certified energy adviser’s report, or a quotation for insulating two poorly insulated components. Supply a contractor quotation stating its registration details, addresses, measures, insulation values, square metres, material notification codes (letter-and-number identifiers from RVO’s national ISDE insulation list), wildlife/SMP approach where relevant, expected installation date and separate material/labour costs. The contractor must be registered in construction in an EU or EEA trade register.

The general municipal rules also require a balanced budget and realistic finance plan identifying other applications for the same activities, the previous year’s annual report and accounts, and founding documents or statutes for a first application, unless the programme departs from those requirements or the municipality already has the documents.

The award sets the payment arrangements: up to 100% can be advanced, with any remainder paid after final determination. Use the grant for the work within 18 months. Within 12 weeks after completion, request final determination through the municipal e-form with contractor invoices, proof of payment and at least one installation photograph per measure showing the material’s name, type, thickness and brand on its product sticker. Photos must show no people.

Immediately notify the municipality in writing if work or grant obligations may not be completed, or of relevant financial/organisational changes, planned cessation or dissolution. Noncompliance can lead to a reduced grant or recovery after an opportunity to put matters right; the explanation says this can follow if correction proves impossible or no planned improvement action is taken after a week. For awards above €25,000 lasting more than a year, interim accounts may be required, at most annually; further conditions may be included in the award.