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Scarborough Borough Council Reveal Carbon Challenge for Older Homes

Sunday, 26 June 2022 08:08

The challenges of decarbonising older homes in the Scarborough Borough are being looked at in a joint project between the Borough Council and other local authorities in North Yorkshire.

The borough has £980,000 to help look at measures to improve local properties.

Borough Council Climate Change Programme Manager, Harry Baross, says there are a number of challenges:

The cost of decarbonising some of the Scarborough Borough's older properties is much higher than the government grants available.

The main government scheme suggests it would cost around £10,000 to upgrade things like insulation on older properties.

Harry says their data shows the real cost is much higher for a number of technical reasons:

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