AT LEAST 6,000 York households spend more than ten per cent of their income on keeping warm, an energy efficiency conference was being told today.
The Local Authority Support Programme Conference, held at the Hilton Hotel, York, was based around energy efficiency and possible ways to solve future energy-related problems.
It was also looking closely at the problem of fuel poverty, defined as when a household spends more than ten per cent of its income on keeping warm.
The 6,000 households in York are in four areas, Westfield, Clifton, Micklegate and Holgate.
Almost one in three households in those areas suffers from fuel poverty, so the City of York Council area has the second highest fuel poverty rate in the whole of Yorkshire.
Ruth Collins, local authority support programme assistant, said: "Fuel poverty can be caused by a number of things, such as low income or having a hard-to- heat home.
"Ways to work effectively to combat it will be discussed at the conference."
Ways to beat fuel poverty that were being discussed include improving insulation, and investments by landlords or home owners in modern boilers.
Grants are available for people on low incomes, the conference was being told.
Updated: 10:34 Friday, July 04, 2003
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