Malus Court is cold. Inside the Salford Precinct apartment block residents are wrapped, up and there's an air of malaise.
It’s around a year since the Manchester Evening News was last here. In early 2022, bills were very much on people's mind.
That wasn’t down to surging utilities prices, though. Residents put their sky-high energy bills down to the NIBE heating system - which relies on insulation from cladding that currently doesn't exist, and costs them a lot even when the heating isn't on.
