SPC Rigid Vinyl Flooring in Welwyn Garden City

Local fact sheet

Welwyn Garden City's homes, by the numbers

Welwyn Hatfield in the 2021 census: 46,209 households, 76% houses, 23% flats.

“Check the damp-proof membrane rather than the level of the boards, and specify for a market where two in five homes are rented.”

Welwyn 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.

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.

A concrete ground floor does not move with the seasons; it takes the temperature of the earth beneath it and gives heat back slowly, which makes it the coldest surface in an inter-war AL8 house. What you choose is the insulating value of the build-up.

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