Spotter plane will spy Coventry's heat-leaking homes - Coventry Telegraph

COUNCIL chiefs are set to swoop on Coventry's heat-leaking homes with a spotter plane.

The £25,000 hi-tech initiative will see an aircraft fly over the city taking thermal images of every building to find out which are energy efficient and which are leaking heat.

The three-hour flight in the early hours of the morning will collect pictures of every home and business and the council wants to put the results on the internet for all to see.

Councillor for climate change, housing and sustainability Nigel Lee said: "If your home is blue it isn't losing heat.

"But if it glows red you're wasting energy and money.
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"If this data goes on the internet, people worldwide can come and see it.

"Potentially people looking at buying a house could type in the postcode and see how energy efficient that house is."

But he added: "You always have to take it with a pinch of salt because the house that glows red could have left their roof hatch open, while the blue house could have been away on holiday."