Norfolk, East of England
From surveys and testing to safe removal and disposal, we cover asbestos work all over Norwich. Licensable work goes to HSE-licensed contractors, as the rules require. It always starts with a free, no-obligation quote.
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Norfolk
Norfolk County Council does not accept any type of asbestos at any of its recycling centres, even during hazardous-waste events.
Norwich's own pages add: Norwich City Council does not collect asbestos in its bulky item collection. It tells homeowners to contact a licensed contractor through the Asbestos Removal Contractors Association or Yellow Pages.
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 Norwich: removal, collection and disposal. Get a free quote
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Norwich is the historic county town of Norfolk, with centuries of building in one place. Medieval and Georgian buildings in the old core sit next to Victorian terraces, inter-war semis, post-war estates and industrial units. Much of this was built before the asbestos ban. So asbestos can be in homes, flats and workplaces across the city. It often sits safely in place until building work disturbs it.
We cover Norwich and the wider Norfolk area, including Wymondham, Sprowston, Thorpe St Andrew, Hellesdon and nearby Great Yarmouth and Dereham. We arrange asbestos surveys, testing and removal through the specialist contractors we work with. Planning work on your home, managing the shared parts of a block of flats or refurbishing a business? Begin carefully. There's no way to spot asbestos by eye, so anything suspect must be surveyed or lab-tested before anyone touches it.
We cover the NR postcode area across Norwich and the surrounding towns.
81.6% of properties in Norwich were built before 2000
That's 56,530 of 69,270. 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?
The biggest group of homes in Norwich was built between 1965 and 1982. This is the peak period for asbestos in UK housing. Insulating board, textured coatings and asbestos cement were all in routine use, so original materials are common. Roughly 81.6% of the 69,270 properties here predate the 1999 ban, and the largest group by type is flats and maisonettes at 37.5%. 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. The next largest group is terraced houses at 36.8%, where party walls and shared roof spaces mean neighbouring work can disturb material next door. By period, 18.9% were built before 1900, 15.1% 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 Norwich is flats and maisonettes, and the largest group by age was built between 1965 and 1982. 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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