'Heat banks' should not become a "long term sticking plaster" for people struggling to pay their energy bills, the council has been warned, as it prepares to use libraries and community centres as warm spaces this winter.
Plans have been drawn up by officials with work underway to identify 'community centres, museums and galleries and neighbourhood offices' across the city that could be utilised.
Local authorities up and down the UK are also setting up the so-called heat banks within public buildings in response to the energy crisis, which is expected to plunge many into fuel poverty as temperatures drop in the coming months.
