Asbestos Removal & Surveys in Hampshire

Asbestos Specialists Across Hampshire

Portsmouth's naval dockyard and Southampton's docks and shipyards were among the heaviest asbestos users in the country. They lagged boilers, pipework and bulkheads with it for decades.

Both cities were heavily bombed and rebuilt through the 1950s and 1960s. That left a lot of post-war housing and public buildings beside older terraces, nearly all from the asbestos years.

In Portsmouth and Southampton the legacy reaches well beyond the dockyards. It runs into the housing built for their workers and the public buildings that served them. Inland, Basingstoke and Andover grew fast under post-war overspill deals. That added a lot of buildings from the years when insulating board was standard.

Hampshire covers 13 local authority areas and about 843,580 properties, roughly 80.7% of them built before the 1999 ban, and the largest group of those was built between 1965 and 1982. A county that size averages out a lot of variation, so the stock in one town can look nothing like the next.

The most common property type in Hampshire is terraced houses, at about 25.8% of the stock, followed by flats and maisonettes at 23.8%. In terraced housing built before the ban, extensions, outbuildings and replacement roofs are where asbestos cement and insulating board most often turn up.

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Managing & Disposing of Asbestos in Hampshire

In Hampshire that duty runs across 13 separate council areas. The buildings it covers range from town centre shops and offices to public buildings and the shared parts of blocks of flats. What the duty to manage requires is set out in full in our guide for landlords and businesses.

Disposing of asbestos in Hampshire

In Hampshire, cement-bonded asbestos sheet is accepted at five sites, Andover, Basingstoke, Efford, Netley and Portsmouth, up to 15 sheets (each no bigger than 1200mm by 600mm), and you must phone the site in advance to pre-book. All visits to a Hampshire recycling centre must also be booked as an appointment, giving the household address the waste comes from. It is free within your household DIY waste allowance, then £12 for each sheet or part sheet, card only. A commercial type or larger vehicle may need a recycling centre permit, so check before you travel. Wrap whole sheets securely in plastic sheeting and double-bag small or broken pieces. Southampton's own recycling centre does not accept asbestos, so Southampton residents use one of the five. Greater amounts and other types need an asbestos removal 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 Hampshire 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.