Oxford is in the top ten in England for the highest percentage of local authority-owned homes in need of a boiler replacement.

According to research by OnlineMortgageAdvisor.co.uk Oxford makes it to the top ten with 8.62 per cent of boilers needing replacing.

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This percentage is from the 7,502 boilers that needed replacing in 2019-2020 in Oxford local authority-owned homes.

The city joins Cambridge, Leeds, Lewisham and Slough and Tower Hamlets which has 11,477 homes that needed boilers replacing in 2019-2020.

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