Chevron Flooring in Redditch

Local fact sheet

Redditch's homes, by the numbers

Redditch in the 2021 census: 36,378 households, 85% houses, 15% flats.

Redditch is B97 and B98 — Central, Batchley and Brockhill, Greenlands and Lakeside, Headless Cross and Oakenshaw, Matchborough and Woodrow, and out to Astwood Bank and Feckenham. It is a district of Worcestershire, and worth distinguishing from Birmingham: the B postcode is shared, the council is not. Social renting is high at 20.2% while private renting is comparatively low at 14.4%. Redditch was designated a new town in 1964 and most of the housing dates from then, which means a concrete ground floor almost everywhere. The check is the damp-proof membrane, not the level of the boards, and a floating floor over a decent underlay is usually the right answer.

An address in B97 or B98 is taken for a Birmingham one often enough, and it is not one. Redditch is a Worcestershire borough with its own council, planned and built to its own brief, so nothing about the housing here follows from the city that happens to share the postcode letter.

The slab under an Oakenshaw or Callow Hill ground floor takes its temperature from the earth beneath, not from the room above, so it reads cool underfoot however warm the house is. Insulating value under the covering counts for more here than the board over it.

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