HOMEOWNERS in Glasgow will get work done to keep fuel bills down from a £4m fund.

A total of 11 projects across the city will be delivered in areas of high deprivation and in homes with a council tax rating of band A to C.

It is estimated that one in three households in Glasgow live in fuel poverty where they are spending more than 10% of their total income of gas and electricity bills.

The cash from the Scottish Government home energy efficiency programme is aimed at helping owner occupiers with measures like insulation to make homes more efficient and reduce heating bills.

It will focus on hundreds of properties where there are mixed tenure of private owners in the same blocks as housing association tenants or in homes where it has previously been difficult to install insulation measures.

Around 700 owners are expected to take up the offer in the improvement programme.

Owners will be expected to contribute and with social landlords also paying some costs the total spend will top £6m.

Areas included in the scheme include sandstone tenements in Haghill with Milnbank Housing association to provide internal and external insulation.

In Cadder around 50 owners in non-traditional homes will get help as will some in Lethamhill Road in Riddrie in maisonette homes.

Homeowners in GHA sites in Craigton in the south of the city and Scotstoun in the west who didn’t get work done because owners opted out due to high costs will get a share to allow thermal insulation work to be carried out to 122 private and 58 tenanted homes.

More than 170 homes in London Road near the Barras Market built by Barratt with now defective cavity wall insulation.

In Yoker almost 80 owners can get help in two storey terraced and semi-detached Lawrence construction homes and in Eastwood/Mansewood around 70 owners in similar homes will also be offered assistance.

In Barmulloch 74 owners in two storey and semi-detached will also be included.

In a report to Councillors Kenny McLean City Convenor for neighbourhoods and housing said: “The schemes will assist owners to participate in RSL improvement schemes where there are mixed tenure blocks and allow the council to deliver projects in wholly owned private schemes particularly non –traditional type housing.”