PE19 is a Peterborough postcode that applies to the St Neots area in Cambridgeshire. It is one of the areas that could be affected by increased noise pollution should the National Air Traffic Service's (Nats) proposals for new holding stacks to serve Luton airport go ahead. Currently under consultation, the proposed stacks have yet to be approved by the Civil Aviation Authority, but should they be approved they could be in place as early as March next year. Nats says that at times aircraft will be creating noise of 57 decibels - a level that the Government considers significant disturbance.

St Neots is a 30,000-strong market town on the River Ouse, at the western edge of Cambridgeshire. Riverside Park is one of the most pleasant parts of the town, and watersports are popular on the river and on local disused gravel pits. StNeots shares the PE19 postcode with the villages of Great Paxton, Little Paxton, Abbotsley,

Hail Weston, Offord D'Arcy, Offord Cluny, Croxton, Stonely, Great Staughton, Buckdon and Yelling, many of which are very peaceful and are more akin to hamlets.

There is a 17th-century cottage on the high street in Yelling with four bedrooms, two reception rooms, a garage, parking space for six cars, a large garden with a fishpond and views over fields. It is for sale for £410,000 through Haart (0845 3386814), and was found via www.globrix.com, the property search engine part-owned by News International, parent company of The Times.

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