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The Scottish Executive's Central Heating Programme and the Warm Deal Annual Report 2003-04: BENEFITS FROM HOME ENERGY EFFICIENCY SCHEMES IN SCOTLAND 2003-04: A REPORT BY THE SCOTTISH EXECUTIVE
Description of properties improved under the Central Heating Programme
Figure 3 shows a breakdown of the built form of properties improved under the Central Heating Programme. 2 Flats and maisonettes accounted for half (50%) of the properties improved.
When built form and tenure are compared, housing association and local authority properties were much more likely to be flats than owner-occupied and privately rented properties: 68% against 35%. Owner-occupied and privately rented properties were more likely to be detached or semi-detached (both 19%), than those in the public sector, where detached properties accounted for 0.1% and semi-detached 7% of improved properties.
Figure 3
Figure 4 shows the periods of construction of the properties improved under the Central Heating Programme. 3
Private sector properties (owner-occupiers and private-rented) tend to be older than public sector ones. More than half (59%) of private properties improved were constructed before 1950, whereas in the public sector properties over a third (43%) were constructed before this date. 4
Figure 4
Fuel used in heating the home
Figure 5 shows the types of fuels used to provide heating in the home before the installation of central heating. More than a third of properties (38%) were using the most expensive fuel for heating - on-peak electricity. This can be compared with the data in Figure 6, which shows the fuel used for heating after improvements have been carried out, where no homes are heated using on-peak electricity. Comparison between the two figures also shows a significant decline in the proportion of homes heated with solid fuel, from 11% to less than 1%.
Figure 5
Figure 6
Before improvement work solid fuel use was the most commonly used fuel among private-rented households (42%) and significantly higher than in other tenures: 14% among owner-occupiers, 3% in local authority properties and 1% in housing association dwellings.
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