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The census behind this page counts Welwyn Hatfield, and the borough is two towns rather than one: Hatfield East and Hatfield Villages fall inside the same total as Handside and Sherrards. Take the proportions as the borough's, and take the house in front of you as its own.
Founded in nineteen-twenty and built to a plan, Welwyn Garden City is more uniform than most places we deliver to. Terraces come first, then semis, then blocks of flats, and the stock is largely inter-war and post-war on solid ground floors, with social renting running high for Hertfordshire.
Consistency helps here: a floor specified for one AL7 terrace usually transfers to the next. LVT Vinyl Click-Lock suits those solid ground floors and the volume of homes that a landlord fits out, while engineered oak tends to go where the house is owned and staying that way.
Wide oak planks sit well in a garden city terrace, though a solid ground floor wants preparing and levelling before boards are glued down rather than simply laid.
Shop rangeClick-lock LVT adds little height over a solid base and handles spills, which suits both the blocks of flats and the many homes here that a landlord maintains.
Shop rangeLaminate is the workhorse for a Peartree or Howlands re-let: quick to lay over a prepared solid floor, and cheap enough to renew when the home changes hands.
Shop rangeWelwyn Garden City covers AL7 and AL8 with AL6 and AL9 alongside, taking in Handside, Haldens, Cunningham and across to Hatfield. It is part of Welwyn Hatfield, a Hertfordshire district. Two figures set this town apart: social renting is 25.4%, a quarter of all households and unusually high for the county, while ownership is 56.6%, among the lowest in the South East. The town was founded in 1920 as the second English garden city and built to a plan, which means the housing is consistent in a way few towns are — largely inter-war and post-war, largely on solid ground floors. Check the damp-proof membrane rather than the level of the boards, and specify for a market where two in five homes are rented.
At the 2021 census, 23.4% of households in Welwyn Hatfield lived in a flat, maisonette or apartment and 76.4% in a house or bungalow — 32.1% of all households in a terraced house.
Tenure: ONS, Census 2021, Welwyn Hatfield (E07000241) · Accommodation type: ONS, Census 2021, Welwyn HatfieldThe 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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