Fifty groups from across Scotland – including the Kirk – have joined forces to persuade politicians to “ensure that Scotland gets the Warm Homes Bill it was promised and that it deserves”.
A total of 649,000 households in Scotland are struggling to keep their homes warm, which is just over 25 per cent of all properties. This means these households need to spend at least 10 per cent of their income to keep their properties warm.
Adrian Shaw from the Church of Scotland explained to Premier what needs to be done to keep people warm.
Speaking during News Hour, he said: “There’s a huge range of issues to be addressed here but at the centre of it, are that our homes are just not well enough built and well enough insulated to be able to keep everybody warm at an affordable cost.”
The groups, led by the Existing Homes Alliance, fear the Scottish Government’s planned Warm Homes Bill will be a missed opportunity, unless steps are taken to beef up the legislation.
Lori McElroy, chair of the Existing Homes Alliance, said: “More than a quarter of Scottish households are still living in fuel poverty – the same proportion who faced cold homes a decade ago – and over a million homes fall below the energy efficiency standard needed for our health.
“All political parties agree this is unacceptable in a modern, wealthy country. The promised Warm Homes Bill represented a once in a…
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