Roofers in Chineham
A Basingstoke suburb with a medieval manor and two business parks
Chineham has 7,914 residents on the Basingstoke to Reading road. Every roof gets a survey, photographs of what lies under the covering and a repair that fits it.
Chineham roofs, from estate streets to business parks
Suburban streets
A residential suburb on the north-east side of Basingstoke, with 7,914 residents counted in 2021.
Business park units
Chineham Business Park and Hampshire International Business Park are named in the council's list of Article 4 directions.
Streets near Old Basing
Houses within reach of the Old Basing conservation area, which lies within about 0.75 km of the centre.
Chineham between Old Basing and Sherfield on Loddon
Old Basing lies to the south, Sherborne St John to the west, Sherfield on Loddon to the north-east and Bramley to the north. Basingstoke is south-west.
- Distance
- 24.7 road miles east of Andover
- Planning
- Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council
- Council
- Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council and Hampshire County Council
The Chineham roof report
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A Basingstoke suburb with a manor's history: who clears a Chineham roof job
Chineham lies east of Andover, 24.7 road miles by road, in the Basingstoke and Deane area and not Test Valley. This report covers the council's own wording on re-roofing, what its Article 4 list means for roofs, and the Hampshire scaffold licence.
A re-roof, a might and a Building Control call
Chineham is a suburb on the north-east side of Basingstoke. Its roofs answer to Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council for planning and for building control, with Hampshire County Council as the highway authority. That makes it unlike Andover, where Test Valley is the district. It also makes straight answers easier, because Basingstoke and Deane publishes its own wording about re-roofing and we can point to it rather than guess at it.
The wording comes from the council's building regulations page. Among alteration projects for which you might also need building regulations approval, it lists replacing roof coverings, pitched or flat. The key word is might, and we never turn it into always. It applies to Basingstoke and Deane's own addresses, Chineham among them, and it is the reason we put a re-roof to the council's Building Control team (01256 844844) before work is booked. Nobody wants to learn after the scaffold is up that a form should have gone in first, least of all with a crew booked.
Alongside the council's page sits the national test. The Planning Portal draws its line at 25 per cent of the building envelope and 50 per cent of the roof, below which no application is normally required. The council's sentence and the Portal's test do not contradict each other. One says a new roof covering might need approval; the other sets out where an application is not normally needed. We read both against the roof in front of us and report what each says about your slope. That report is short and in plain words, and it sits at the front of the photographs rather than behind them, so you can read the conclusion first and check it against the pictures afterwards.
Weight is the third consideration. A new covering that proves at least 15 per cent heavier than what it replaces brings in Building Regulations approval wherever the house stands, and the Planning Portal advises a structural engineer or surveyor to examine the structure beforehand. Swapping a light covering for a heavy one is the case to watch. Garage and extension roofs fall under the same wording, because the council's sentence covers flat roofs as well as pitched ones.
When we call Building Control we describe the existing covering, the proposed one and the share of the roof affected, and we send the survey photographs. The reply goes on your file. A registered building control approver is the private alternative to the council, and we settle at the survey which of the two applies to you.
Manor, business parks and the Article 4 list
In 1911 the Victoria County History recorded that the Chineham estate formed a detached portion of Monk Sherborne parish, lying between the two parts of Basing parish and crossed by the main road from Basingstoke to Reading. The manor was held in 1086 by Aghemund, and in 1317 the houses and goods in Richard de Chineham's manor were burnt. Those are medieval and Edwardian facts about land. The civil parish now has 7,914 usual residents, counted at the 2021 Census, on the north-east side of Basingstoke along the Reading road. A roof here is judged by what is on it today.
Basingstoke and Deane's own list of Article 4 directions includes two that name this area. One covers conversion of commercial premises to residential use, and the council's description picks out storage and distribution premises in Chineham Business Park and Hampshire International Business Park. The other deals with turning houses into Houses of Multiple Occupation, in Basingstoke Town and Chineham, with the villages Oakley, Old Basing and Sherborne St John close by. Both are changes of use. Neither, in the council's description, is about roof coverings.
The Article 4 wording that does touch roofs belongs to four conservation areas in Basingstoke town. In those streets the council says roof changes need planning permission, and original Welsh slate and clay tile are meant to stay. Chineham is not named among the four. The Old Basing conservation area does lie within about 0.75 km of the centre, and its mapped boundary is the council's own, so we check the council's map for your address instead of relying on memory. Our guide to planning permission for roof work explains what a conservation area changes.
Units on the business parks are commercial roofs, with their own coverings, rooflights, gutters and falls. A unit owner wants what a householder wants: a survey, photographs of what is found and one total price. The difference lies in access and timing, and our commercial roofing page sets out how those jobs are run. Whether you own a unit, rent one or look after the roof for a landlord, the survey tells you what condition the roof is in before anyone talks about replacement. That matters because a repair to a failed seam or a blocked outlet may be all the roof needs, and a plain account of the cause lets the person who pays decide with the facts in hand. The survey also records whether the unit's gutters and downpipes are clear, and whether any rooflights show cracks or loose fixings.
“Chineham answers to Basingstoke and Deane for the roof and to Hampshire for the road.”
A Hampshire scaffold licence, step by step
In Chineham the district council decides planning and the county decides the road, which means two councils and two sets of pages. Hampshire County Council issues scaffold licences for the highway under section 169 of the Highways Act 1980, and the firm that supplies the scaffold applies on its customer's behalf. The form is therefore the scaffolder's job, not a chore for you.
Hampshire County Council wants ten clear working days to separate application and start, rules out tacit consent and gives no extensions. Hampshire County Council's fee is £211.90 on application for the first 2 weeks and £72 for each additional 2-week period, and hoarding wanted as well costs extra. Its other conditions are £10 million of public liability insurance, a 1:500 plan, proposals for signing and guarding, and scaffolding built to BS EN 12810/12811 or NASC guidance TG20:13. A private road, the county adds, needs no licence at all, so a drive tower is an option.
Because Hampshire does not extend a licence, the length requested matters. We discuss with you how long the work should take, including wet days when a slope cannot be opened up, and set the licence period with that margin built in. A scaffold that must stay up beyond its licence means starting again, with the notice period that goes with it. Dates are therefore settled with you before anything is sent to the county, so that the licence covers the right fortnight and not the one before it.
Some Chineham jobs avoid the road altogether. A bungalow or a garage may be reached from the drive, and a tower on private land needs no licence. Where the road is needed, the cost sits inside your single total together with the scaffold hire and the waste carted away. If the Building Control team replies with a question, the answer comes back to you before the booking is confirmed, so the date you are given is a date that stands. The licence clock and the approval clock run side by side, and we watch both. If either clock slips, you hear about it from us, with the reason and the new date set out in writing. A short note after each step tells you what has happened and what comes next, so you never need to chase us for news. For leaks, slipped tiles and flashing faults, roof repairs starts with a survey and photographs. For garage and extension roofs, flat roofing covers the coverings and the falls that keep water moving to the outlet.
Chineham homes: our roof services
Chineham roofs and the two councils behind them
Does the HMO Article 4 direction that names Chineham affect a re-roof?
Basingstoke and Deane describes it as covering conversion of dwelling houses to Houses of Multiple Occupation, which is a change of use. Nothing in the council's description touches roof coverings. If you are planning a conversion, ask the council's planning team. For a repair or a re-cover we put the roof-specific question to the same council before work is booked.
Do business park units in Chineham need a different approach from houses?
The survey is the same: photographs of the covering, rooflights, gutters and falls, then one total price. What differs is access, working hours and the rules for flat or low-pitched coverings. The council names storage and distribution premises on the two business parks in an Article 4 list about change of use, not about roofs, and we check the planning side with the council.
How long does a Hampshire scaffold licence take for a Chineham job?
Hampshire County Council wants a ten-day gap, counted in clear working days, and silence never counts as consent. Hampshire County Council wants the application from the scaffolding company. Hampshire County Council's fee is £211.90 for the first 2 weeks and £72 for each further 2 weeks. Dates are fixed first, and the programme is built around the notice, with a little spare time for weather.
Does the borough's building regulations wording cover tile replacement?
Basingstoke and Deane's page lists replacing roof coverings, pitched or flat, among alteration projects that might also need approval. It is wording about the council's own addresses, and the word is might. We put your job to the Building Control team before booking, and a heavier covering needs Building Regulations approval wherever the house stands. You hear the council's answer from us in plain words.
Around Chineham, from Old Basing to Bramley
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