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Loughborough on this page is LE11 and LE12, one footprint doing two jobs: a town centre you can cross on foot, and a rural rim that runs past Long Whatton and Diseworth to Gotham and Leake, over the county line into Nottinghamshire. Which of the two you are in changes the brief.
Semis and detached houses make up most of the stock in this part of Charnwood, and ownership sits well above the private rented share. But that rented share is not spread evenly: it concentrates in a handful of LE11 streets given over to student housing.
A house full of students sees furniture dragged about and a fresh intake every year, which argues for hard-wearing laminate. Away from those streets – Nanpantan, Thorpe Acre, Barrow upon Soar – engineered oak repays the extra outlay in a home someone means to keep.
Most Charnwood households own their home and expect a floor to last, which is where engineered oak earns its money; an oiled finish suits a student let poorly.
Shop rangeShared kitchens see spills, and LVT click-lock takes them, wipes over and comes up plank by plank when a landlord resets a house between years.
Shop rangeDragged furniture and a yearly change of tenants are what laminate shrugs off, and that is why it holds its place in the student streets.
Shop rangeLoughborough is LE11 and LE12 — Loughborough Ashby, Castle Rock, Dishley, Hathern and Thorpe Acre, Forest Bradgate, and out to Barrow upon Soar. It is part of Charnwood, a district of Leicestershire. Ownership was 69.8% at the 2021 census with private renting at 17.4%, but that figure is worth reading carefully: Loughborough is a university town, and a substantial part of the private rented stock is student housing concentrated in a few streets rather than spread evenly. A house let to students is a different brief from a family home — the floor needs to take furniture being dragged and survive a change of tenants every year, which points at a hard-wearing laminate rather than an oiled oak.
At the 2021 census, 10.7% of households in Charnwood lived in a flat, maisonette or apartment and 88.8% in a house or bungalow — 17.9% of all households in a terraced house.
Tenure: ONS, Census 2021, Charnwood (E07000130) · Accommodation type: ONS, Census 2021, CharnwoodThe same questions come up in every town we deliver to. These four references answer them once, with the source in each case.
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