Roofers in Chandler's Ford
A big Hampshire town of everyday house roofs and extensions
Chandler's Ford has 23,918 residents, one listed building near the centre and a great many ordinary roofs. Each one is surveyed and photographed before a price is set.
Chandler's Ford roofs, house by house
Houses with hips and valleys
Family homes with hips, valleys and chimney stacks, each junction a seam that leaks if its seal fails.
Flat roofs on extensions
Rear extensions, garages and porches with flat roofs, where the outlet, edge trim and membrane decide the repair.
Streets near Flood Zone 3
Homes close to land in Environment Agency Flood Zone 3, where downpipes need a clear route away from the walls.
Chandler's Ford and its Eastleigh-side neighbours
Valley Park and North Baddesley lie to the west, Ampfield to the north-west and Otterbourne to the north-east. Allbrook, Bishopstoke and Eastleigh are east and south-east, Chilworth south-west.
- Distance
- 20.8 road miles south of Andover
- Planning
- Eastleigh Borough Council
- Council
- Eastleigh Borough Council and Hampshire County Council
The Chandler's Ford roof report
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Eastleigh decides the plans, Southampton shares the checks: how a Chandler's Ford roof is cleared
Chandler's Ford is a town of 23,918 residents, 20.8 road miles south of Andover. This report covers who clears roof work here, what a lone listed building and a flood-zone edge change, and how the Hampshire scaffold licence works.
Eastleigh for planning, a partnership for building control
Planning for a Chandler's Ford roof rests with Eastleigh Borough Council, while the road outside is Hampshire County Council's. At the 2021 Census the parish had 23,918 usual residents, which makes it a town whose streets hold every sort of house, from older family homes to later extensions added at the back. Roofs of that variety rarely share a fault, so the first visit is spent finding the one that matters.
Building control follows a different line. Southampton and Eastleigh Building Control is delivered by Southampton City Council, working alongside Eastleigh Borough Council, and Southampton's own page says the service can be offered outside the two boundaries as well. A Chandler's Ford re-roof that needs a building control check therefore goes to that partnership. It does not go to a team of Eastleigh's alone, and it does not go to the body that covers Test Valley, a few miles to the west.
For the re-roof itself the yardstick is the Planning Portal's national test, as no council around here sets a local figure in its place. Work on less than 25 per cent of the building envelope, and on less than 50 per cent of the roof, can normally go ahead without a building control application. Replacing a lighter covering with a heavier one is the exception: if the new covering is 15 per cent or more heavier, approval applies and the Planning Portal advises an engineer or surveyor to check the structure beforehand.
Planning is the second question. Re-covering a house like for like is normally outside planning, whereas changing a roof's shape or look can need permission, and Eastleigh Borough Council is the body to ask. Whether an Article 4 direction touches your street is also for Eastleigh to say. Our guide to planning permission for roof work explains the main rules, and we raise the Article 4 question at the survey so it never surprises you later.
On the survey visit we write down which authority handles each part of your job: Eastleigh for planning, the partnership for building control, Hampshire for the road. You then hold one sheet that names who to ask, with the photographs of what we found. If you would rather use a registered building control approver, that private route is regulated under the regime in force since 6 April 2024, and the same sheet records which one you chose.
The sheet also records how each photograph was taken, from a ladder, a tower or the roof itself, so you know how much each picture can show.
One listed building and a town of ordinary roofs
The National Heritage List records one listed building within about 900 metres of the centre of Chandler's Ford. That is a very different picture from a village street with a dozen listed cottages, and outside that one entry and its neighbours, listed building consent is not the first question on a Chandler's Ford roof. Where it does, for that one entry or for a house beside it, the consent route applies in full, and the list entry for your address comes first, before any price for work that would alter a roof's appearance.
Conservation areas work the same way, and we do not guess. Eastleigh Borough Council holds the map, and the street-facing look of a roof faces tighter control inside a conservation area. Ask the council's planning team whether your address falls inside one. We will read the map with you at the survey and record what it shows on your paperwork, next to the photographs.
Beyond that one entry, the work in Chandler's Ford is the everyday kind, and the interesting part is the junction detail. A hip is where two slopes meet at an outward angle, finished with a ridge-style tile that is mortar-bedded or dry-fixed. A valley is the inward angle where two slopes meet, lined with lead or a trough. Water arrives at both at speed, and both are checked on every survey.
Chimneys come next. A stack on a house of this kind has flashings where it meets the slope, flaunching where the pots are bedded, and pointing on the brickwork. Any of the three can fail while the tiles around it stay sound, and a stain on a bedroom ceiling beside a chimney breast often starts at one of them. Our chimney repairs start by finding which of the three has let go.
Flat roofs on extensions and garages need a different eye. We look for ponding, split seams, a lifted edge trim and a blocked outlet. A flat roof that holds water after rain is telling you something about its falls, and the photographs we take show where the water stood, so you can see the evidence for yourself and judge whether a patch or a new membrane is the honest answer.
Porch canopies and bay-window roofs are small and often forgotten. They sit lower than the main roof, so water from the slope above runs onto them, and the lead or felt at the junction takes the strain. A quick look from the first-floor window, or from a ladder, is part of every visit.
“In Chandler's Ford the plans go to Eastleigh, the building checks to a Southampton partnership.”
Flood Zone 3, downpipes and the county licence
Parts of the land within about 250 metres of the centre of Chandler's Ford lie in Environment Agency Flood Zone 3, according to the Flood Map for Planning. A roof does not cause that, and a good roof does not cure it, but it is a reason to care about where the water from the roof goes. Gutters and downpipes should carry it clear of the walls and into a proper outlet, and a gutter spilling at a joint puts the water against the house instead.
That is why the roofline is part of every survey here. We look at gutter falls, joints, brackets and downpipes, and at fascias and soffits behind them. Rot in a fascia board starts where water has sat against it for years, and it spreads into the rafter ends. Guttering, soffits and fascias are priced as part of the job when the survey shows they need work.
Should scaffolding need the highway, Hampshire County Council issues the licence under section 169 of the Highways Act 1980. Its requirements include a 1:500 plan, signing and guarding proposals, plus a scaffold built to BS EN 12810/12811 or NASC guidance TG20:13. In Hampshire's system the scaffolding firm applies for the customer, and Hampshire County Council wants the application 10 clear working days before the start.
Hampshire County Council's fee is £211.90 on application for the first 2 weeks and £72 for each additional 2-week period, with a further fee if hoarding is needed alongside the scaffold. Private roads need no licence. Ask any roofer whether a quote includes the scaffold and its licence, and check whether it includes VAT, because both change the total you are comparing.
On a busy road the dates matter more. We hold the application until the tiles, the membrane or the boards are confirmed, so that a licence which cannot be extended is not running while the roof waits for a delivery. For a smaller job a tower or a ladder-based repair may do, and the survey says which.
When rain is already coming in, the first visit is about making the roof safe. We find where the water enters, close it for now and photograph what lies behind. The proper repair is planned afterwards, once the cause is clear, and you decide on the evidence and not under pressure from a dripping ceiling.
If a quote reaches you from another roofer, check what it covers before comparing totals: scaffolding, waste removal, VAT, and what happens if rotten timber turns up once the covering is off.
Roof, roofline and chimney work in Chandler's Ford
Chandler's Ford roofs: drainage, checks and the licence
Does the Flood Zone 3 land near Chandler's Ford centre affect a roof repair?
It does not change the roof work, but it makes drainage matter. Parts of the land within about 250 metres of the centre lie in Environment Agency Flood Zone 3. Gutters, joints and downpipes should carry roof water clear of the walls, so we check them at every survey and photograph any joint that leaks.
Which team checks building regulations on a Chandler's Ford re-roof?
Southampton and Eastleigh Building Control, which Southampton City Council runs jointly with Eastleigh Borough Council. The Planning Portal's national test is under 25 per cent of the envelope and under 50 per cent of the roof. A covering 15 per cent heavier or more needs approval. A registered building control approver is an alternative, and we record whichever route you pick.
How do I find out if my Chandler's Ford house is in a conservation area?
Ask Eastleigh Borough Council's planning team, which holds the conservation area map. Rules on altering a roof's look are stricter inside one, so ask before any change of tile, slate or roof shape. We read the map with you at the survey and note the answer next to the roof photographs, so you hold a dated copy before any application is made.
Who applies for a scaffold licence on a Chandler's Ford road?
The firm erecting the scaffold applies to Hampshire County Council, 10 clear working days ahead of the start. Hampshire County Council charges £211.90 on application for the first 2 weeks and £72 for each additional 2-week period, and asks for a 1:500 plan and signing and guarding proposals. On a private road the licence falls away, so ask which applies.
Neighbouring parishes and towns
Get your Chandler's Ford roof surveyed first
Send your address and a photo. We name the Eastleigh and partnership checks, then give one total price in writing.
10-year workmanship guarantee, in writing.