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Flooring in Basingstoke

A 1960s town and its older streets

6.6% of Basingstoke dwellings predate 1940. What the expanded town's estates, older streets, lets, new screeds and weather mean for a new floor.

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Basingstoke 6.6%England and Wales 35.4%Each square is 1% of homes

Only 6.6% of dwellings in the Basingstoke built-up area were built before 1940, against 35.4% across England and Wales, which places the town 135th of 141 towns on that count.

The floor you plan to replace is therefore seldom the boarded, ventilated kind that the period-homes guide describes for older houses. In most homes here it dates from after 1940, and what it is made of is something to establish, not assume. The council's own account explains why: its Local Plan records that the town grew rapidly in the 1960s from a market town into an 'expanded town', taking part of the capital's overspill.

So begin with the structure, its level and its neighbours, then the finish. The sections below run in that order: house age, the older streets, tenure, new homes, protection, and the weather at the door.

Read the 6 chapters on Basingstoke homes See all 21 local facts

Homes in Basingstoke

6 chapters on Basingstoke homes and what they ask of a floor · about 5 min read

01/ 06

  • 16.4%built 1973 to 1982

Expansion-era estates: what the dwelling dates show

The valuation figures point the same way as the council's history. 16.4% of dwellings in the built-up area date from 1973 to 1982, the 10th highest share of 141 towns, while England and Wales stand at 8.9%. The Basingstoke Town conservation area appraisal adds the starting date: the town was designated an extension area for the capital in 1961, and more than half of the former historic core was redeveloped at that time. According to the Local Plan, the expansion produced new residential areas for the incoming households, with Oakridge, Popley and South Ham among them.

For a floor, the date of a house is a practical clue rather than a matter of style. The bedrooms guide links the arrangement of rooms over one another, and the material of the joists, to the age of the building, so a house on an estate of the expansion years and a house on a street laid out before it start from different places. The living-room guide draws a similar line between a period front room and a 1970s through-lounge. A through-lounge runs from the front of the house to the back, so a single floor covers its whole depth, and the direction of the boards and the position of any joins are decided once for both ends of the room.

02/ 06

Brookvale West, Fairfields and Eastrop: housing older than the expansion

Some of the older housing sits in areas whose dates the council has written down. Its appraisal of Brookvale West records that the residential streets there were constructed between 1897 and 1912 and that they include terraces of small two-up two-down houses. Fairfields, south and west of the centre, is described in its appraisal as rows and terraces of two-storey brick Victorian and Edwardian housing. On the eastern side, the Basingstoke Town appraisal connects the housing along Eastrop Lane with the development of Eastrop and the town's expansion eastwards in the 1920s and 1930s.

Houses from these decades are where the pre-war ground floor turns up: timber on joists, with air passing beneath it. The period-homes guide makes that moving air the reason the timber stays dry, so the vents set into the outside walls near ground level need to stay open once the new floor is in. In a small terrace, which rooms take water and how much grit crosses the threshold owe as much to the plan of the house as to the people living in it, and the floor near the front door works harder than its size suggests.

03/ 06

  • 32.9%in a terraced house
  • 21.0%rent socially

Terraced households, social lets and private landlords

Terraces here are not only the Victorian kind. 32.9% of households live in a terraced house, 28th of 151 towns and above the 23.2% recorded for England and Wales; set beside the small share of dwellings from before 1940, many of those terraces must date from later decades. A terrace with one bathroom has a different pattern of wet rooms from a larger house, so the kitchen and bathroom floors in a terrace each carry more of the daily water than they would in a home with several such rooms.

Tenure shapes the choice as well. 21.0% of households rent from a council or housing association, against 17.1% for England and Wales, and 17.2% rent privately, which is below the 20.3% national share and 126th of 151 towns. The rentals guide sees choosing for a let as its own sum, separate from choosing for yourself, because a poor decision only shows itself years later. Its everyday example is water: a washing machine leaks or a shower overflows and nobody mentions it that day. A covering that absorbs nothing leaves a drying job; one that soaks it up leaves a replacement and an empty home.

04/ 06

  • 15.8%built 2009 or later

Homes built since 2009 and the screeds beneath them

Building did not stop with the expansion. 15.8% of dwellings in the built-up area date from 2009 or later, 20th of 141 towns (England and Wales: 11.8%). Across the Basingstoke and Deane local authority, 6.7 new homes were completed in the year to March 2026 per 1,000 existing dwellings, compared with 5.5 per 1,000 dwellings for England. The adopted Local Plan makes provision for 15,300 dwellings in the borough between 2011 and 2029.

A newly completed home usually means a new screed, and the new-build guide is direct about the trap: the surface looks ready, pale and firm underfoot, while it still holds more moisture than anything else in the building. A drying allowance from the builder is a date to begin testing, not proof of dryness. Ask for the result of a moisture test before wood, laminate or a glued floor goes down, and keep the figure with your paperwork. An estate house of this age also has a different base from the terraces and semis that surround it, so the fixing method follows the screed rather than the neighbours.

05/ 06

  • 1.6listed entries per 1,000 homes

Conservation areas, Article 4 and how rare listing is here

The council states that the borough has the largest number of conservation areas of any single district in Hampshire. In the town it names Fairfields, South View, Brookvale West and Basingstoke Town Centre among the areas covered by Article 4 Directions, and it describes all four as Victorian or Edwardian urban areas. Conservation-area controls deal with the outside of a building. A new floor inside a house in one of these streets is not what they regulate.

Listing is the instrument that reaches indoors, and it is uncommon in this town: 1.6 listed building entries per 1,000 dwellings, 120th of 135 towns, compared with 14.7 per 1,000 dwellings for England. If your building is one of them, works that affect its character inside as well as out can need listed building consent, and taking up original boards or blocks may be such works. Speak to the council's conservation officer before anything is lifted.

06/ 06

  • 0.24dogs per household
  • 22.8days with 10 mm of rain or more

Wet days, frost and fewer dogs: what reaches the hall

The Met Office grid cell over the town centre averages 22.8 days a year with ten millimetres of rain or more (1991 to 2020), 41st of 151 towns, where the median of the 151 towns is 17.8 days a year. Grit, sand and wet soles arrive together, and the vinyl cleaning guide names them as what a floor meets first at the door. A mat inside the entrance and a hard-wearing finish in the hall stop most of it there instead of in the living room.

Air frost is recorded on 43.8 days a year, against a median of 38.1 days a year for the 151 towns. Inside the house that barely registers, but a conservatory swings between warm afternoons and freezing nights, and the conservatories guide ties both ends of that swing to where the house stands. The floor out there is picked to tolerate both extremes, whatever the room is used for.

Dogs are less common here than in the typical postcode district of Great Britain. The modelled median for the four postcode districts RG21 to RG24 is 0.24 dogs per household (2015 estimate), against a median of 0.41 dogs per household for 2,737 postcode districts. Where a dog does live, the dogs guide puts water carried in on paws, and whether the dog can walk comfortably on the surface, ahead of scratches.

Floor by floor

What Basingstoke houses, old and new, ask of each floor

19 floors, rooms and needs, each with a note written for Basingstoke homes. Pick one to read it.

Floor types

Floor type

Basingstoke

Engineered Wood

In a house from after 1940 the base under the old covering decides whether engineered boards are floated or bonded, so lift a corner before you order.

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Basingstoke

Solid Wood

Solid oak goes onto sound joists or a dry, level base, so in the Brookvale West houses of 1897 to 1912 the existing boards and the air beneath them are checked first.

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Floor type

Basingstoke

Parquet

With 6.6% of dwellings from before 1940, parquet in Basingstoke is usually a fresh decision for a room rather than the repair of an old floor.

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Floor type

Basingstoke

Laminate

Laminate over a 1970s ground floor needs a level base, and in a flat over a neighbour it also needs an underlay picked for the ceiling below.

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Basingstoke

LVT Vinyl

With 21.0% of households renting from a council or housing association, vinyl that takes on no water is the sensible starting point for many kitchens and bathrooms here.

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Floor type

Basingstoke

SPC Rigid Vinyl

A rigid stone-plastic core copes with a subfloor that is not quite flat, so measure the level of the existing floor whether the house is an estate home or a Victorian terrace.

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Rooms

Room

Basingstoke

Hallway

22.8 days a year with ten millimetres of rain or more and 43.8 days of air frost put the hall first in line for the hardest-wearing finish in the house.

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Room

Basingstoke

Kitchen

Kitchens in the terraces, where 32.9% of households live, take spills and grit carried in from outside in the same small room, so the finish is chosen for both at once.

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Room

Basingstoke

Living Room

A 1970s through-lounge wants one continuous floor from front to back, and 16.4% of dwellings here date from 1973 to 1982.

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Room

Basingstoke

Bedroom

Bedrooms take little wear, so a lighter specification upstairs leaves more of the budget for the hall and stairs.

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Room

Basingstoke

Bathroom

Bathroom floors in the expansion-era estates sit on a structure of their own decade, so take up the old covering and see what lies beneath before choosing.

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Room

Basingstoke

Utility Room

A utility room shared by a washing machine and muddy boots needs a surface that absorbs nothing, the same reasoning the rentals guide applies to lets.

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Room

Basingstoke

Conservatory

With 43.8 days of air frost a year against a median of 38.1, a conservatory floor here has to live with cold nights as well as warm afternoons.

Patterns & needs

Pattern or need

Basingstoke

Herringbone

In the Victorian and Edwardian terraces of Fairfields, look under the hall carpet first: an original block floor is worth finding before new herringbone is chosen.

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Pattern or need

Basingstoke

Chevron

A chevron is bonded to its base, so on the newer estates the flatness of the screed matters more than the angle of the pattern.

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Pattern or need

Basingstoke

Waterproof

For a utility corner or the single bathroom of a terrace, a floor listed as waterproof still needs sealed edges, because water also travels round the perimeter.

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Pattern or need

Basingstoke

Underfloor Heating

A heated screed in a new home is dried and brought up to temperature before the floor is laid, and with 15.8% of dwellings from 2009 or later, that order of work is worth confirming with the builder.

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Pattern or need

Basingstoke

Pet-Friendly

At a modelled median of 0.24 dogs per household across postcode districts RG21 to RG24, dogs are fewer here, but in a home that has one, wet paws matter more than claws.

Pattern or need

Basingstoke

Grey

A landlord standardising several lets on one grey keeps the tone consistent only by ordering each room from a matching batch.

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Questions

Questions about flooring in Basingstoke

Is an older Basingstoke house likely to have a suspended timber ground floor?

Fewer homes date from the era when one was usual: 6.6% of dwellings here were built before 1940. In streets such as those of Brookvale West, built between 1897 and 1912, check the ventilation under the floor before laying anything.

Do the Fairfields and South View conservation areas limit what floor I can lay indoors?

Not through conservation-area rules, which concern the outside of a building. Listing can reach inside, but the built-up area has only 1.6 listed building entries per 1,000 dwellings.

Can a floor go straight onto the screed of a newly built Basingstoke home?

Only once a moisture test says it is dry. 15.8% of dwellings in the town date from 2009 or later, and the Local Plan provides for 15,300 dwellings in the borough between 2011 and 2029.

What should a landlord letting a terrace in Basingstoke weigh up before choosing a floor?

Water and the tenancies to come. 21.0% of households rent from a council or housing association and 17.2% rent privately, and in a let a floor that takes on no water limits the damage from a leak nobody reports.

Does the local weather change what I should put in the hall?

It argues for a hard-wearing finish and a good mat: the town centre has 22.8 days a year with ten millimetres of rain or more and 43.8 days of air frost.

Local facts

Local facts: Basingstoke

21 facts from the census, the Met Office, the council and other public records, each with what it means for a floor in Basingstoke and where it comes from.

  • When they were built

    6.6%

    built before 1940

    Basingstoke6.6%
    England and Wales35.4%

    135th highest of 141 towns

    For your floorWith so few Basingstoke dwellings from before 1940, the ventilated timber ground floor is the exception, and where it exists its under-floor ventilation must stay open.

    Source

    Dwellings built before 1940. Area: Basingstoke built-up area (ONS Built-up Areas 2024). VOA, Council Tax: stock of properties 2025, table CTSOP4.1 (build period). Data: 2025-03-31 · retrieved 2026-09-22.

  • When they were built

    16.4%

    built 1973 to 1982

    Basingstoke16.4%
    England and Wales8.9%

    10th highest of 141 towns

    For your floorA high share of dwellings from 1973 to 1982 means many Basingstoke living rooms are through-lounges, which ask for one floor across their full depth.

    Source

    Dwellings built 1973 to 1982. Area: Basingstoke built-up area (ONS Built-up Areas 2024). VOA, Council Tax: stock of properties 2025, table CTSOP4.1 (build period). Data: 2025-03-31 · retrieved 2026-09-22.

  • When they were built

    15.8%

    built 2009 or later

    Basingstoke15.8%
    England and Wales11.8%

    20th highest of 141 towns

    For your floorBasingstoke's homes from 2009 onwards sit on a different base from the older terraces and semis around them, so the fixing method follows the screed.

    Source

    Dwellings built 2009 or later. Area: Basingstoke built-up area (ONS Built-up Areas 2024). VOA, Council Tax: stock of properties 2025, table CTSOP4.1 (build period). Data: 2025-03-31 · retrieved 2026-09-22.

  • Homes

    32.9%

    in a terraced house

    Basingstoke32.9%
    England and Wales23.2%

    28th highest of 151 towns

    For your floorMany Basingstoke households live in terraces, where one bathroom and one kitchen carry the daily water of the whole house.

    Source

    Households in a terraced house. Area: Basingstoke built-up area (ONS Built-up Areas 2024). ONS, Census 2021, TS044 Accommodation type (households). Data: 2021-03-21 · retrieved 2026-09-22.

  • Who lives here

    21.0%

    rent socially

    Basingstoke21.0%
    England and Wales17.1%

    52nd highest of 151 towns

    For your floorWith many Basingstoke households in council or housing association lets, floors that take on no water turn unreported leaks into drying jobs.

    Source

    Households renting from a council or housing association. Area: Basingstoke built-up area (ONS Built-up Areas 2024). ONS, Census 2021, TS054 Tenure (households). Data: 2021-03-21 · retrieved 2026-09-22.

  • Who lives here

    17.2%

    rent privately

    Basingstoke17.2%
    England and Wales20.3%

    126th highest of 151 towns

    For your floorPrivate landlords in Basingstoke choose floors for future tenancies, a different calculation from choosing for their own home.

    Source

    Households renting privately. Area: Basingstoke built-up area (ONS Built-up Areas 2024). ONS, Census 2021, TS054 Tenure (households). Data: 2021-03-21 · retrieved 2026-09-22.

  • When they were built

    6.7 per 1,000 dwellings

    New homes completed in the year per 1,000 existing homes

    Basingstoke6.7
    England5.5

    34th highest of 135 towns

    For your floorNew completions across Basingstoke and Deane add fresh screeds every year, each of which looks dry before it is.

    Source

    New homes completed in the year per 1,000 existing homes. Area: Basingstoke and Deane local authority. MHCLG, Live tables on housing supply: indicators of new supply, Table 253 "Permanent dwellings started and completed, by tenure and district", sheet FY_2025_26, column "All Completions" (building control reported, rounded to the nearest 10 by MHCLG); per 1,000 dwellings in Live Table 125 (dwelling stock at 31 March 2025). Data: 2025-04-01/2026-03-31 · retrieved 2026-09-22.

  • Who lives here

    0.24

    dogs per household

    Basingstoke0.24
    Median of 2,737 postcode districts in Great Britain0.41

    117th highest of 150 towns

    For your floorThe modelled median dog count for Basingstoke's postcode districts is low, but in homes with a dog wet paws and footing matter more than scratches.

    Source

    Dogs per household, estimate (median of the postcode districts named under Area). Area: median of 4 postcode districts (RG21–RG24). Animal and Plant Health Agency, dogs per household per postcode district (modelled). Data: 2015-01-01 · retrieved 2026-09-22.

  • Weather & ground

    22.8

    days with 10 mm of rain or more

    Basingstoke22.8
    Median, 151 towns17.8

    41st highest of 151 towns

    For your floorFrequent days with ten millimetres of rain or more bring wet grit to Basingstoke front doors, which the hall floor meets first.

    Source

    Days with at least 10 mm of rain per year (1991–2020 average, town centre). Area: Basingstoke town centre (Met Office HadUK-Grid 2 km cell). Met Office, HadUK-Grid (v1.1.0.0) climate averages 1991-2020, Met Office Climate Data Portal: Monthly Temperature Observations 1991-2020 (2 km grid), Monthly Min Temperature Observations 1991-2020 12km (12 km grid), Annual Count of 10mm Rainfall Days 1991-2020 (2 km grid). Data: 1991-2020 · retrieved 2026-09-22.

  • Weather & ground

    43.8

    air frost days a year

    Basingstoke43.8
    Median, 151 towns38.1

    31st highest of 151 towns

    For your floorBasingstoke's air frost days mark the freezing end of the swing a conservatory floor has to tolerate.

    Source

    Days with air frost per year (1991-2020 average, town centre). Area: Basingstoke town centre (Met Office HadUK-Grid 2 km cell). Met Office, HadUK-Grid climate averages 1991-2020 (climate data portal). Data: 1991-2020 · retrieved 2026-09-22.

  • Heritage & plans

    1.6

    listed entries per 1,000 homes

    Basingstoke1.6
    England14.7

    120th highest of 135 towns

    For your floorListing is rare in Basingstoke, but where a building is listed, lifting original boards can need listed building consent.

    Source

    Listed building entries per 1,000 dwellings. Area: Basingstoke built-up area (ONS Built-up Areas 2024). Historic England, National Heritage List for England, listed building entries. Data: 2026-09-21 · retrieved 2026-09-22.

  • When they were built

    Building period

    The council's adopted Local Plan records that Basingstoke developed rapidly in the 1960s from a market town into an 'expanded town', taking part of the capital's overspill population.

    For your floorBecause the council dates Basingstoke's rapid growth to the 1960s expansion, most floors here sit on post-war structures whose make-up has to be checked.

    Source

    Area: Basingstoke town (Basingstoke and Deane Local Plan 2011 to 2029). Basingstoke and Deane Local Plan (2011 to 2029), adopted May 2016. Data: 2016-05-26 (adopted; part of the statutory development plan) · retrieved 2026-10-21.

  • When they were built

    Building period

    According to the Local Plan, the 1960s expansion saw new residential areas built to house the new residents, Oakridge, Popley and South Ham among them.

    For your floorOakridge, Popley and South Ham date from the expansion, so their rooms and joists follow that era rather than the Victorian streets.

    Source

    Area: Oakridge, Popley and South Ham, Basingstoke (Basingstoke and Deane Local Plan 2011 to 2029). Basingstoke and Deane Local Plan (2011 to 2029), adopted May 2016. Data: 2016-05-26 (adopted; part of the statutory development plan) · retrieved 2026-10-21.

  • When they were built

    Building period

    The Basingstoke Town conservation area appraisal records that the town was designated an extension area for the capital in 1961 and that more than half of the former historic core was redeveloped at that time.

    For your floorThe 1961 designation and the redevelopment of the old core explain why so little of Basingstoke's housing predates the expansion.

    Source

    Area: Basingstoke Town conservation area (historic town centre, Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council). Basingstoke Town Conservation Area Appraisal. Data: 2015-09-29 (Basingstoke Town Conservation Area Appraisal and Management Plan SPD adopted by Cabinet; PDF created 2015-10-09) · retrieved 2026-10-21.

  • When they were built

    Building period

    The Basingstoke Town conservation area appraisal states that housing along Eastrop Lane reflects the development of Eastrop and the town's expansion eastwards in the 1920s and 1930s.

    For your floorHousing along Eastrop Lane from the 1920s and 1930s belongs to the inter-war era, with joists and room layouts of that age.

    Source

    Area: Eastrop, east of the town centre (setting of the Basingstoke Town conservation area). Basingstoke Town Conservation Area Appraisal. Data: 2015-09-29 (Basingstoke Town Conservation Area Appraisal and Management Plan SPD adopted by Cabinet; PDF created 2015-10-09) · retrieved 2026-10-21.

  • When they were built

    Building period

    The Brookvale West conservation area appraisal records that the residential streets of the area were constructed between 1897 and 1912.

    For your floorBrookvale West's streets of 1897 to 1912 are where Basingstoke's pre-war joisted ground floors are most likely to be found.

    Source

    Area: Brookvale West conservation area, west of Basingstoke town centre. Conservation Area Appraisal: Brookvale West. Data: 2003-07-17 (adopted as Supplementary Planning Guidance after the 2003 review; area first designated 1999) · retrieved 2026-10-21.

  • Homes

    Housing type

    The Brookvale West conservation area appraisal records terraces of small two-up two-down houses among the area's housing.

    For your floorIn Brookvale's small two-up two-down terraces, the few downstairs rooms take both the water and the grit from the street.

    Source

    Area: Brookvale West conservation area, west of Basingstoke town centre. Conservation Area Appraisal: Brookvale West. Data: 2003-07-17 (adopted as Supplementary Planning Guidance after the 2003 review; area first designated 1999) · retrieved 2026-10-21.

  • Homes

    Housing type

    The Fairfields conservation area appraisal describes the essence of the area as rows and terraces of two-storey brick Victorian and Edwardian housing.

    For your floorFairfields' two-storey brick terraces shape which rooms get wet and where grit enters, so the hall and kitchen floors work hardest.

    Source

    Area: Fairfields conservation area, south and west of Basingstoke town centre. Conservation Area Appraisal: Fairfields. Data: 2004-07-22 (adopted as Supplementary Planning Guidance; area designated 2004; published October 2004) · retrieved 2026-10-21.

  • Heritage & plans

    Conservation areas

    Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council states that there are now more than 40 conservation areas in the borough, the largest number for any single district in Hampshire.

    For your floorThe borough's many conservation areas are controlled from the outside, so the floor inside a Basingstoke house is not what those controls address.

    Source

    Area: Basingstoke and Deane borough (local authority area). Conservation areas (web page). Data: undated web page (content as retrieved 2026-10-21) · retrieved 2026-10-21.

  • Heritage & plans

    Conservation areas

    The council names Fairfields, South View, Brookvale West and Basingstoke Town Centre among its conservation areas with Article 4 Directions, and describes all four as Victorian or Edwardian urban areas of Basingstoke.

    For your floorArticle 4 Directions in Basingstoke's Victorian and Edwardian conservation areas govern the street-facing exterior, leaving indoor floors outside their scope.

    Source

    Area: Basingstoke town (four conservation areas, Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council). Conservation areas (web page). Data: undated web page (content as retrieved 2026-10-21) · retrieved 2026-10-21.

  • When they were built

    New homes planned

    The adopted Local Plan makes provision for 15,300 dwellings in the borough between 2011 and 2029.

    For your floorThe 15,300 dwellings provided for in the borough plan each bring a new screed whose drying allowance only says when to start testing.

    Source

    Area: Basingstoke and Deane borough (local authority area). Basingstoke and Deane Local Plan (2011 to 2029), adopted May 2016. Data: 2016-05-26 (adopted; part of the statutory development plan) · retrieved 2026-10-21.

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