The coldest places to live in Nottinghamshire have been revealed by new data. Neighbourhoods across the city and county have been ranked among the top 1,000 coldest in the UK, according to Friends of the Earth.
The environmental campaign group calculated the statistics by identifying 9,000 areas with higher than average energy use and below-average incomes, before working out the energy efficiency of houses using their Energy Performance Certificates (EPC). The group is calling on the UK Government to commit to a street-by-street insulation programme to keep people warm and well, while cutting bills and harmful carbon emissions.
The campaign group also recorded that people of colour are more than twice as likely to live in some of England’s coldest neighbourhoods, according to their analysis, reports the Mirror.
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Catriona Currie, warm homes campaigner at Friends of the Earth, said: “We’ve heard how people are making every adjustment they can to ease the enormous cost pressures they’re facing, and the cold is far from the only problem – damp issues are putting health and wellbeing at risk too."
The average home in 17 Nottinghamshire neighbourhoods are rated as 'poor' in the data. This includes areas in the city such as Forest Fields and Sneinton, as well as neighbourhoods in Kirkby-in-Ashfield and Worksop.
Forest Fields was rated as the coldest neighbourhood locally within the report. This was followed by the neighbourhood of North Sherwood, The Meadows, Netherfield & Colwick, Stanton Hill and Skegby and Worksop Cheapside.
New Basford, Hyson Green, Market Warsop, Kirkby Central, Sutton Central and Leamington and Broxtowe & Cinderhill came next in the rating.
They were followed by the neighbourhoods of Beechdale, Ollerton & Boughton, Bilborough South, Bilborough North and Oak Tree & Ransom Wood.
This data comes as temperatures drop across the UK, coinciding with financial difficulties that mean many people are unable to afford rising heating bills. Parents in St Ann's said they were trying to "get by day-to-day" after being forced to turn on the heating.
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