Bradford Council is fighting fuel poverty by providing insulation and cladding on park homes that can be very cold in the winter.

The Council has introduced the Bradford Community Warmth Park Homes Project that will fund wall cladding and insulation to the roofs and floor space of the homes in Cringles Park, Bolton Road, Silsden.

The Council has secured all the funding from the West Yorkshire Housing Partnership.

Park homes are single storey homes like mobile homes, made of timber on a steel chassis.

Their heating systems are powered by bottles of LPG which they buy on site.

The residents tend to be pensioners and among those at the greatest risk of not being able to afford to heat their homes.

They also tend to be sited off the gas network in remote rural locations.

Cringles Park resident Mrs Carol Mount said: “I am very satisfied with the work on my house.”

Coun Adrian Naylor, executive member for regeneration and the economy, said: “We are funding these insulation measures to make these type of homes, that miss out on the most common insulation schemes, a great deal warmer.

“This is a significant problem that affects some of the people most vulnerable to fuel poverty.

“There are over 100,000 park homes in the UK and Bradford is pleased to establish an exemplary project that demonstrates a solution as to how these people can be helped in a very practical way.”

National Energy Action is working with Bradford Council on this project and the contract has been awarded to Blue Flag Ltd. They hope to complete all the work ahead of schedule.

Victoria Enyon, Project Coordinator (technical services) of the NEA, said: “Park homes have some of the highest fuel bills, but cannot currently access the fuel poverty and energy efficiency grants available to most of us, such as Warm Front and CERT funding from the energy companies.”

The NEA will be monitoring the amount of money people have in their pockets as a result of lower fuel consumption.