Asbestos Removal & Surveys in Cambridgeshire

Asbestos Specialists Across Cambridgeshire

Peterborough's brickworks and engineering, and the farm machinery trade across the Fens, used asbestos insulation and sheeting steadily through the twentieth century.

Peterborough was made a new town in 1967 and grew fast. Cambridge grew hard around its edges over the same decades. So both have a lot of buildings from the years before the ban.

Peterborough's new townships were built quickly and to a pattern. That's the setting in which insulating board was used for fire protection in homes, schools and public buildings. Out in the Fens around March, Chatteris and Wisbech the county is farmland. Sheeted barns, grain stores and workshops are what we're usually asked about there.

Cambridgeshire has a newer stock than most of the counties we cover, though about 71.9% of its 405,340 properties still predate the 1999 ban, and among those 1965 to 1982 is the commonest period. A newer county average does not make any individual building safe, and only a survey or a laboratory test settles it.

The most common property type in Cambridgeshire is detached houses, at about 24.4% of the stock, followed by semi-detached houses at 23.6%. Detached properties tend to come with more outbuildings, garages and sheds, and asbestos cement sheeting on those is far more common than anything inside the house.

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Managing & Disposing of Asbestos in Cambridgeshire

It applies to business premises, public buildings and the shared parts of blocks of flats right across Cambridgeshire. What the duty to manage requires is set out in full in our guide for landlords and businesses.

Disposing of asbestos in Cambridgeshire

Cambridgeshire does not accept asbestos at recycling centres, but runs a permit-and-bag scheme for small quantities of cement-bonded asbestos (equivalent to two roof sheets or less) that a resident has removed from their own home. An admin fee of £14.85 applies (the bag, permit and disposal are otherwise free), and the scheme is limited to one bag per residence, once per 12 months. The supplied bag is 2.59m × 1.37m; contents must be sealed with industrial tape or cable ties, and the permit is valid six weeks. The bag is taken to the Waste Transfer Station at Alconbury, March or Waterbeach; there is no collection. Larger scale demolition or improvement waste needs a licensed contractor. (council source, verified 2026-10-10)

Check the site's own page before you travel. Recycling centres are often closed on set weekdays, and often set extra rules for vans, pick-ups, trailers and visitors on foot, such as permits, size limits or no access on foot.

Asbestos waste is classed as hazardous (special) waste.So there are rules on how it's wrapped, labelled, carried and recorded. We set them out in full in our disposal guide.

Councils across Cambridgeshire set their own rules for households. When we arrange the work, disposal is handled for you. For the rules where you live, see our asbestos disposal by council lookup, or check typical prices in the UK asbestos removal cost report.