Dundee City Council’s successful external wall insulation programme looks set to receive a boost with additional cash from a number of national sources.

A total of 48 properties in Maitland Street will receive the energy saving work after a successful bid for funds from a national underspend.

Kevin Cordell, deputy convener of Dundee City Council’s neighbourhood services committee, said: “With a council contribution of £163,114 we were able to bring forward this work worth a total of £354,306.

“Work will be completed by the end of May 2017 and I am sure that tenants and owner occupiers in Maitland Street will find the same reductions in their energy bills and warmer homes that we have heard about from other parts of the city where this work has been done.”

Turners FM, the contractors for the work, have been procured through council partners SSE.

The additional funding comes from Scottish Government Home Energy Efficiency Programme for Scotland - Area Based Scheme (HEEPS - ABS), and energy efficiency measures reallocated from national underspend.