Tyne and Wear, North East
Homeowner, landlord or business in Newcastle upon Tyne? 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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Newcastle upon Tyne
Asbestos is not accepted at any of Newcastle's household waste and recycling centres.
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 Newcastle upon Tyne: removal, collection and disposal. Get a free quote
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Newcastle upon Tyne, in Tyne and Wear, has its own mix of buildings. There are Georgian streets, Victorian Tyneside flats, inter-war and post-war housing and industrial buildings along the river. Much of this was built long before the asbestos ban. So asbestos can be found in homes, flats and workplaces across the city. In most cases it sits safely in place until building work disturbs it.
We arrange asbestos surveys, testing and removal across Newcastle and Tyneside, through the specialist contractors we work with. That includes Gateshead, Wallsend, Gosforth, North Shields and nearby Sunderland. Whether you're improving an older home, managing flats as a landlord or refurbishing a business, the safe route is the same. You can't tell asbestos from a harmless material by looking. Have anything suspect surveyed or lab-tested before it's disturbed.
We cover the NE postcode area across Newcastle upon Tyne and the surrounding towns.
81.6% of properties in Newcastle upon Tyne were built before 2000
That's 115,680 of 141,750. 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 flats and maisonettes the risk is often in the parts nobody owns individually: service risers, ducting, communal cupboards and ceiling voids, where insulating board and lagging were widely used. Inside a flat, textured coatings and floor tiles are the common ones. That matters in Newcastle upon Tyne because flats and maisonettes are the largest group there, 37.5% of 141,750 properties, and around 81.6% of the stock predates the 1999 asbestos ban. The next largest group is semi-detached houses at 25.3%, 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, 12% were built before 1900, 23.2% between 1919 and 1939 and 18.3% 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 Newcastle upon Tyne is flats and maisonettes, and the largest group by age was built between 1900 and 1939. In flats the material is as often in the parts nobody owns individually as it is inside any one home, which changes who is responsible for it.
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