Roofers in Landford
A Wiltshire village in the New Forest, beside scheduled round barrows
Landford is a Wiltshire village inside the New Forest National Park, so two authorities each have a say. We survey and photograph first.
Landford roofs on the Wiltshire edge of the Forest
Homes inside the Park
Landford lies inside the New Forest National Park, which counts as protected land when a dormer is proposed.
Scheduled round barrows
Landford Common Round Barrows, a scheduled monument within about 500 metres of the centre, has its own consent route.
Wiltshire addresses
Landford's 1,984 residents (2021 Census) deal with Wiltshire Council for Building Regulations and scaffold licences.
Landford between West Wellow and Whiteparish
West Wellow lies east, Whiteparish north, Sherfield English north-east and Redlynch west. Copythorne is south-east.
- Distance
- 23.1 road miles south-west of Andover
- Planning
- New Forest National Park Authority
- Council
- Wiltshire Council
The Landford roof report
Local editionLandford, WiltshireA Wiltshire village under Forest planning
Landford's roofs: planning from the New Forest, inspection and scaffold from Wiltshire
Landford is a Wiltshire village of 1,984 people inside the New Forest National Park. This report sorts out where planning goes, who inspects under the Building Regulations, who sets the scaffold licence, and what the nearby barrows change.
Park planning, Wiltshire inspection
Landford parish had 1,984 usual residents at the 2021 Census. The village stands in Wiltshire yet sits inside the New Forest National Park, a mix that deserves a clear explanation. Planning applications go to the New Forest National Park Authority, and New Forest District Council's householder page directs Park addresses there. A Landford roof application follows the same rule, even though the address is in Wiltshire.
Inspection under the Building Regulations is a different office. The inspecting is done by Wiltshire Council's own Building Control service, based at Monkton Park, Chippenham (0300 456 0113), and the Park does not take that work over. Wiltshire Council is the highway authority as well. One council therefore inspects and licenses, a second body plans, and an answer from either says nothing about the other.
The Planning Portal sets the national measure for a re-roof. When less than 25 per cent of the building envelope and less than 50 per cent of the roof is disturbed, no building control application is normally needed. We use that for a Landford address and put anything close to the limits to Wiltshire's team before it is booked. Weight is a separate test: Building Regulations approval is triggered by a covering that is 15 per cent or more heavier, and the Planning Portal suggests a structural opinion first.
The survey is methodical. We start at the eaves and read the fascia (the board along the lower edge) and the soffit (the board closing in the underside of the overhang). We work up each slope, checking tiles, fixings and soakers (the folded lead or zinc pieces that seal where a slope meets a wall), and finish at the ridge and the chimney.
Where access is safe we lift a tile and photograph the battens and underlay below. Each picture is matched to a finding, so the write-up reads as evidence and not opinion, and the pictures stay with the house papers afterwards. On a later sale, a buyer's surveyor can read the same record.
A registered building control approver can be engaged instead of Wiltshire's team. Either way the route is written down before the work is dated.
Small jobs seldom get this far. A lone slipped tile or a perished flashing is a repair job, the survey records it in a sentence, and the paperwork stays light. The routes matter when a slope is failing, the shape of the roof changes, or the house is listed, in which case the answers arrive in writing before a date is set.
Round barrows, the Forest boundary and a short heritage list
Landford Common Round Barrows is a scheduled monument (list entry 1005593) within about 500 metres of the village centre. Scheduled monument consent is the route for any works carried out on the monument. A house roof elsewhere in the village is another matter, but when a property stands near the barrows, the plot is compared at survey with the barrows' scheduled extent on the national list, instead of leaving it to guesswork.
No listed building appears on Historic England's list within about 500 metres of the centre, and the parish runs further out than that circle. We check your own address against the list, not only the radius. If a house is listed, listed building consent applies where work would alter its character, in addition to any permission from the Park Authority, and the starting point is repair in matching materials.
Forest Central (North) is among the nearest conservation areas, within about 2.5 km of Landford. Near is not inside. Coverage depends on where the boundary falls, and the map for your address settles it. We also ask the Park Authority whether an Article 4 direction applies. It has a Park-wide Article 4 area, the New Forest National Park Boundary, and the Park Authority can confirm what that direction covers.
Park status has one simple effect on roof alterations: a National Park is protected land, so a new dormer needs a planning application where it might have been automatic elsewhere. Our guide to planning permission for roof work sets out the limits. Repair and matching re-covering are judged separately from alteration, and the survey tells you which you are applying for.
With few designations in the record, careful photography becomes the main safeguard. A Park planning officer, a later buyer or a neighbour can see what covered the roof before work, what lay beneath and what changed, which keeps any later argument short. We take wide views from the ground, then close-ups of every junction and a sample of the fixings. A mortar-bedded ridge is checked for cracks and hollow joints, a dry-fixed one for loose clips.
We also note the roof's pitch, the run of the ridge and the number of valleys. They are dull details, but they set how long the job takes and how the scaffold is built.
Because the Park Authority holds the planning decision, a conversation before a formal application can save time on anything beyond a repair. We set out what the photographs show, let the authority say what it needs, and adjust the proposal before the application goes in. It costs less than a refusal and saves a resubmission.
“In Landford the Forest decides planning and Wiltshire decides almost everything else.”
Wiltshire's scaffold licence and the work we price
Scaffold that obstructs a footway or road falls under section 169 of the Highways Act 1980, and the highway authority issues the licence. For Landford that body is Wiltshire Council, not the Park Authority. Wiltshire Council expects the firm supplying the scaffolding to submit the request through its MiPermit portal, with one licence for each site, which keeps the form off the householder's desk.
Notice drives Wiltshire Council's fee: £143.80 for an application lodged over three working days ahead, £164.70 for anything later. Every licence is valid for 28 days. Where a marked bay sits beside the house, its suspension is arranged separately. These steps are laid out in the plan, so you can see licence, scaffold and work in sequence before you agree.
Twenty-eight days is generous for a repair and snug for a full re-roof. We plan the order of work so the scaffold stays only as long as needed. If a decision from the Park on a planning application is still awaited, the scaffold booking waits as well, since there is no point standing poles beside a roof whose consent is still pending, and every week of idle scaffold costs the same as a working week would.
Landford roofs call on the ordinary services. Roof repairs tackle slipped tiles, split ridge pieces and flashings that have come away. Chimney repairs deal with a stack whose pointing has worn or whose flashing has gone. Roof replacement is laid out beside repair, with photographs showing which suits the roof in front of us.
Houses among trees have their own problems, especially where branches overhang the roof. Leaf fall blocks gutters and valleys, and a falling branch can crack a tile. Chimney lead is checked for splits and lifted edges, where water can get into the stack. The survey separates what is merely dirty from what is damaged, so a clear-out is not sold as a repair.
West Wellow, Whiteparish, Sherfield English, Redlynch and Copythorne are all close. They sit under a mix of councils and park rules, so each address gets its own check, and the answer goes into the survey notes before any price is written. Where the check turns up a consent that is needed, the date for the scaffold waits for it.
On delivery day the practical questions are simple. Where can the lorry stand? Is the ground firm enough? Does anything need to cross a neighbour's land? If it does, their agreement comes first. If water is coming in meanwhile, we put a temporary cover on first, and plan the permanent work once the consent route is known.
Roof, roofline and chimney work in Landford
Landford roofs: the Park, Wiltshire and the barrows
Does a Landford house in Wiltshire send a dormer application to the New Forest?
Yes. Landford is inside the New Forest National Park, which is protected land, so a dormer needs a planning application and it goes to the Park Authority, not a Wiltshire planning desk. Wiltshire Council then deals with the Building Regulations side, which is a separate application with its own fee and its own officer. Our survey photographs of the existing structure support the application.
Who inspects a re-roof in Landford, the Park or Wiltshire?
Wiltshire Council does, through the Building Control service it runs from Chippenham. The Park deals with planning alone. A heavier new covering, at 15 per cent or more above the old, needs Building Regulations approval. Bigger jobs are shown to Wiltshire's inspectors before a date is set, and their answer is stored in the survey file.
Is there a conservation area in Landford?
Forest Central (North) is the nearest one to Landford village, within about 2.5 km, so nearby does not mean your house is inside it. The Park Authority's map answers that for your address, and it is asked about any doubt. The reply is entered in your survey notes ahead of any price, so no boundary is left to guesswork.
How is a scaffold licence priced for a Landford house?
Wiltshire Council charges £143.80 when more than three working days' warning is given and £164.70 for shorter notice, and each licence is valid for 28 days. Wiltshire Council expects the scaffold firm to apply by MiPermit. The sum forms part of your single price, and a scaffold kept off the highway needs no licence. We confirm at survey which case applies to your plot.
Ask for a Landford roof survey
Pass on the address and one photo of the damage. A survey comes first and one written price after it.
10-year workmanship guarantee, in writing.