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Six Figure Sum Spent To Work Out How To Make Older Scarborough Borough Homes Carbon Neutral

Energy consultants are to be brought into the Scarborough Borough to figure out how to decarbonise hard to adapt homes.

£100,000 of funding has been secured to deliver the project which aims to come up with solutions to decarbonise stone built-properties and Victorian terraces.

Borough Councillor Carl Maw has welcomed the study:

The Scarborough Borough is posing some particular problems for North Yorkshire's ambition to become a carbon-negative county.

Many properties in the borough are classed as hard to de-carbonise with their structures not lending themselves to things like cavity wall insulation.

Fylingdales Councillor Jane Mortimer also welcomes the plans:

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