Londoners forced into debt over ‘heat network trap’ warming homes despite 36°C weather

Tenants of Wedgwood House, Aida Haile (left) and Kirsty Oliveira (right) (Picture: Nick Edwards for Metro)

London has a ‘heat network trap’, forcing tenants into debts they will never be able to pay off.

Tenants in Wedgwood House, which is just a 15 minute walk away from Westminster Bridge, have banded together to challenge Lambeth council after they saw bills jump by up to 350%.

Except these residents do not have their own boilers and cannot control how much their homes are heated.

Instead the entire building’s heating system is communal with a cen...