Bedfordshire, East of England
Homeowner, landlord or business in Luton? We cover asbestos surveys, testing, removal, disposal and management. HSE-licensed contractors handle licensable work, and every enquiry starts with a free quote.
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Bedfordshire
Across Bedfordshire, asbestos is not accepted at Bedford's household waste recycling centre or at Central Bedfordshire's tidy tips, and neither council collects it.
Council schemes are for small amounts that have already been taken down and wrapped. For anything more, or anything still in place, we arrange the whole job in Luton: removal, collection and disposal. Get a free quote
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Luton, in Bedfordshire, grew as an industrial town known for hat-making and later car-making, and its buildings carry that history. Victorian terraces, inter-war and post-war housing and older industrial and business units are all common here. Much of it was built before the asbestos ban. Any property built or altered before 2000 may contain asbestos.
We cover Luton and the area around it, including Dunstable, Bedford, St Albans, Hitchin and Harpenden. We arrange asbestos surveys, testing and removal through the specialist contractors we work with. Updating an older home, managing the shared parts of a block of flats or fitting out a business unit? Begin by treating anything suspect with care. Looks alone will never tell you if something contains asbestos, so have it surveyed or lab-tested before any work.
We cover the LU postcode area across Luton and the surrounding towns.
87.2% of properties in Luton were built before 2000
That's 74,600 of 85,570. Asbestos wasn't fully banned until 1999. Only a survey or a test can tell you about one property: do you need an asbestos survey on a house?
In terraced housing the materials that turn up most often are textured coatings on ceilings and walls, insulating board around fireplaces, airing cupboards and behind boilers, and asbestos cement in outbuildings, garage roofs, gutters and downpipes. That matters in Luton because terraced houses are the largest group there, 29.3% of 85,570 properties, and around 87.2% of the stock predates the 1999 asbestos ban. The next largest group is semi-detached houses at 29.1%, usually with a garage or outbuilding of its own to check. The largest group was built between 1900 and 1939. Property from this period was built before asbestos use peaked, so where asbestos is present it usually arrived with later work: post-war repairs, added textured coatings, new outbuilding roofs and heating upgrades. That later work is common enough in housing of this age that it still needs checking before anything is disturbed. By period, 5.3% were built before 1900, 19.6% between 1919 and 1939 and 12.6% since 2000. None of that tells you whether a particular property contains asbestos; only a survey or a laboratory test can.
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The largest group of homes in Luton is terraced housing, and the largest group by age was built between 1900 and 1939. Terraced housing tends to throw up the same short list of materials, mostly in the ceilings and in whatever was added at the back later.
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