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Growth here has changed who lives in PE19, not only how many. Ownership gave up a little ground between the two censuses, private renting took some of it, and shared ownership doubled off a very small base – so the new streets on the edge of town are bringing new kinds of household with them.
PE19 holds two kinds of house at once. Recent building on the eastern side of town sits on screed with underfloor heating as standard and leans detached; the older centre goes back centuries and sits on timber. Most homes are owned across both, private renting a good way behind.
Where underfloor heating is in the screed, as in much of the recent building east of town, engineered oak is the construction to use: solid timber moves as the floor cycles warm and cool, and no underlay makes up for it. Nearer the centre, over joists, the choice widens.
In the older part of town, over joists, engineered oak behaves well and can be sanded back once or twice, which suits a house someone intends to keep.
Shop rangeA thin LVT click-lock floor lets heat through screed readily and handles spills, which suits the detached family houses on the growing side of PE19.
Shop rangeLaminate goes over screed or joists and keeps costs down when several rooms are done at once, though in a big room at Buckden it looks like what it costs.
Shop rangeSt Neots covers PE19 with PE29, SG19 and MK44 around it, taking in Brampton, Buckden, Godmanchester, Great Paxton and Great Staughton. It sits in Huntingdonshire, a district of Cambridgeshire. Ownership was 69.0% at the 2021 census and private renting 16.8%. St Neots is one of the fastest-growing towns in the county, and the growth is the flooring story: the estates on the eastern edge are recent enough that screed and underfloor heating are the norm, while the market square and the streets around it are centuries older and sit on timber. Over underfloor heating engineered wood is the correct construction — solid timber moves as the floor cycles warm and cool, and no underlay compensates for that.
At the 2021 census, 11.2% of households in Huntingdonshire lived in a flat, maisonette or apartment and 88.0% in a house or bungalow — 18.0% of all households in a terraced house.
Tenure: ONS, Census 2021, Huntingdonshire (E07000011) · Accommodation type: ONS, Census 2021, HuntingdonshireThe 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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