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More than 200,000 homes in Tayside and Fife need upgraded to meet new government targets

The SNP and Greens published their strategy for making homes across Scotland cleaner and greener from 2025.

The Scottish Government has been urged to do more to help homeowners pay for energy efficiency upgrades to their homes, with figures showing more than 200,000 homes across Tayside and Fife fall below the target.

Earlier this month, the SNP and Green coalition published their strategy for making homes across Scotland cleaner and greener from 2025.

The plan will require more than a million homes and the equivalent of 50,000 non-domestic buildings to meet at least an Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) rating of C standard by 2033.

Figures from the Scottish House Condition Survey reveals Angus has the highest percentage of homes with an EPC rating of less than C across Tayside and Fife at 71%.

The most recent data, from 2017 to 2019, shows 45,000 homes in Perth and Kinross would need upgraded – or 66% of properties.

Scottish Conservative MSP Maurice Golden, who represents the north-east region, called for the government to approach the issue in a “fair and realistic way”.

Homes currently account for around a fifth of Scotland’s emissions and will need to be made more energy efficient with the majority switching to low or zero carbon heating systems to meet the SNP-Green target of becoming a net zero nation by 2030.

Maurice Golden, Scottish Conservatives.

Mr Golden said: “When you consider the sheer number of homes which the SNP and Greens will deem to be below their own environmental standards, it runs into huge swathes in Angus.

“There is strong public support for climate change action, but what the nationalists must realise is you can’t simply impose this on hardworking families without putting something in place to help them achieve it.

“By dictating to people that they must spend thousands of pounds on their own home, the SNP and Greens risk doing more harm than good.

“Everyone appreciates that there are areas of the country’s building stock to improve, but it’s absolutely essential we go about doing this in a fair and realistic way.”

‘Huge transition’

The Scottish Government is investing at least £1.8 billion over the course of this parliament in heat and energy supplies across Scotland but has made it clear “that the cost cannot be borne by government alone”.

Mr Harvie told MSPs it is expected the total cost of ending Scotland’s contribution to climate change from buildings emissions will be more than £33 billion.

A spokesman for the Scottish Government called on the UK Government to take “urgent action” in reserved areas to support the just transition to decarbonised heating, adding that Westminster’s current overall plan does not go far or fast enough”.

He added: “The ambition set out in our Heat in Buildings Strategy is significant, and rightly so on the eve of COP26 coming to Glasgow.

“This is a huge transition, affecting communities, businesses and households all across Scotland and we must work collaboratively – across public and private sectors, across parliament, and across governments, to deliver it.

“We are clear that, as we take these bold steps to reduce emissions from our homes and buildings, we must do so in a way that leaves no-one behind.

Nicola Sturgeon and Patrick Harvie entered into a power-sharing deal earlier this year.

“The Scottish Government already offers a comprehensive support package for domestic and small scale non-domestic heat and energy efficiency measures through our Home Energy Scotland and Energy Efficiency Business Support services.

“Our existing funding scheme for zero emission heating systems, including heat pumps, already goes beyond the support offered by the UK Government’s Clean Heat Grant, with grant funding of up to £7,500 per household, in addition to a further £6,000 of grant for energy efficiency improvements, as part of the Home Energy Scotland Loan.”

A spokesman for the Department of Business, Energy and Industrial said: “The Scottish Government made the decision to opt out of the forthcoming £450 million UK Government Boiler Upgrade Scheme.

“Decarbonising our buildings is a joint endeavour across the United Kingdom and our Heat and Buildings Strategy showcases our plans to incentivise people to install low-carbon heating systems in a simple, fair and cheap way as they replace their old boilers over the coming decade.”