More than 400 households across the Leeds City Region including up to 20 in York, will benefit from £1.7million of funding to tackle fuel poverty and keep household bills low.

In a competitive bid to government, the Leeds City Region Enterprise Partnership (LEP) successfully secured funding to support local people living in homes that are not connected to the gas grid to have central heating installed for the first time. Once installed, central heating has the potential to help households save up to £1,000 a year as well as ensuring their homes become more energy efficient.

In the Leeds City Region, the Better Homes Yorkshire scheme, which launched in March this year, is already supporting residents to carry out energy improvement work to their homes.* This new funding will complement the existing programme and ensure over 400 households across the ten Local Authorities and several Housing Associations within the Leeds City Region will benefit from fully-funded gas connections and central heating systems. In York, Better Homes funding has already included encouraging private landlords to invest in the fuel-efficiency and therefore the quality of the homes they rent out.
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