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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