Roofers in Oakley
Church Oakley, its conservation area and the lanes west of Basingstoke
Oakley has a conservation area with its own council appraisal. We survey the roof first, show you the photographs and recommend the repair the roof really needs.
Oakley roofs around Church Oakley
Church Oakley streets
Houses inside or beside the Church Oakley conservation area, which has its own appraisal from Basingstoke and Deane.
Listed cottages and barns
Barn Cottage, the Barn House and Deep Well Cottage, all Grade II, where a roof repair may need consent.
Homes on Rectory Road
Rectory Road, where number 3 is Grade II, listed on 17 October 1984.
Oakley, west of Basingstoke
North Waltham and Dummer lie to the south, Overton to the west and Basingstoke to the east. Sherborne St John is north-east, with Kingsclere further to the north-west.
- Distance
- 17.9 road miles east of Andover
- Planning
- Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council
- Council
- Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council and Hampshire County Council
The Oakley roof report
Local editionOakley, HampshireA conservation village in Basingstoke and Deane
Church Oakley and the borough: what Basingstoke and Deane expects of an Oakley roof
Oakley is a Basingstoke and Deane village, 17.9 road miles from Andover, with its own conservation area and appraisal. This report covers the village's materials, the borough's re-roofing wording and the county's scaffold rules.
Church Oakley, Malshanger and the village materials
Oakley's parish counted 5,385 usual residents at the 2021 Census. The Church Oakley conservation area lies within about 0.75 km of the village centre, and Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council has produced an appraisal for it. That document names the materials found in the village: mellow red brick, timber-frame, flint, chalk cob, stone, render, orange and red roof tiles, slate and thatch. It is a list of everything found in the village, not a count of roofs, so it tells us what to expect on a survey and nothing about how many of each there are.
The Victoria County History (1911) adds some history. Malshanger House, in a wooded park west of the village, was built by Edward, first Lord Thurlow, beside an older house, and in 1911 a tall octagonal tower of that older house still stood. The same volume noted that Church Oakley village stood so close to its parish's eastern border that the hamlet of East Oakley lay in Wootton St Lawrence parish. Those are descriptions from 1911, kept here for a sense of place and not as a statement about any building today.
Listed buildings are close at hand. Historic England's list holds 16 listed buildings within about 500 metres of the centre, among them 3 Rectory Road (list entry 1179676, Grade II, first listed on 17 October 1984), Barn Cottage and the Barn House (1092905) and Deep Well Cottage (1092900), all Grade II. Alter the character of a listed house and you need listed building consent first. Our guide to listed building roof repairs explains the route.
Matching is the heart of repair work in a village with a published appraisal. On a clay-tile roof we match the size, the colour and the pattern of the courses. If it is slate, we match thickness and fixing. If part of your property is thatched, a specialist thatcher is the person for the thatch; the survey looks at the chimney stack, the guttering and any tile or slate sections next to it.
The photographs go to you first. If a conservation-area question arises, they go to the council as well, so an officer can judge the colour, texture and condition of what is there without relying on a telephone description. A clear image settles more arguments than a paragraph of explanation, and it protects you if anyone later asks what the roof looked like before the work.
For owners who are selling, the same set of images and a written account of the repair are useful to the buyer's solicitor and surveyor, and they show a buyer how well the roof has been kept.
What Basingstoke and Deane says about re-roofing
Oakley belongs to Basingstoke and Deane borough. Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council acts as planning authority, and its own Building Control team (01256 844844) handles Building Regulations. Hampshire County Council is the layer above, as county council and highway authority. Church Oakley is one of the borough's designated conservation areas, with its own council appraisal, so conservation-area questions here go to the borough's planners.
The borough lists the renewal of roof coverings, pitched or flat, among alterations it says "might also need" approval. The wording is cautious: might, not always, and the page gives no percentage to apply. We treat that as a prompt to ask. Ahead of an Oakley re-roof we raise it with them, then hand you the answer along with the survey photographs, so the decision is yours and made with facts.
The Planning Portal supplies the national yardstick. Where under 25 per cent of the building envelope, and under half the roof, is touched, an application is not normally required. A heavier covering changes things. If the new material weighs 15 per cent more, or beyond, approval under the Building Regulations follows, with a structural check recommended first. Swapping clay for concrete is the example to keep in mind.
Basingstoke and Deane keeps its own list of Article 4 directions. The entry that names Oakley covers conversions of houses to houses in multiple occupation, which concerns how a home is used and not what covers it. The borough's directions on roof changes, fascias, soffits and guttering apply in four named town conservation areas. For an Oakley address, the sensible question for the council is whether any direction touches your street.
The private route is a registered building control approver, instead of the council team. Either route works for a roof, and we tell you which we think suits the job.
In practice, the appraisal gives you a way to describe the roof to the planning team in the council's own terms. When we write up a repair for a house in the Church Oakley area, we use the appraisal's vocabulary of brick, tile and slate, so an officer reading the note recognises at once what is proposed and what is being kept.
Small repairs seldom reach any of these thresholds. A cracked ridge tile or a worn flashing is simply a repair, and the survey note records that in black and white. If a job does cross a threshold, the note names the threshold and the person we will ask.
“An Oakley roof answers to Basingstoke and Deane for planning, and to Hampshire County Council for scaffold.”
Scaffold licences from Hampshire on Oakley roads
Basingstoke and Deane decides planning and building control, but a scaffold standing on a public road is a highway matter. Section 169 of the Highways Act 1980 requires a licence for it, and the body that grants it in Oakley is Hampshire County Council. The borough issues no scaffold licences, so a good start is to ask the right authority.
The scaffolding contractor, not the householder, sends the application to Hampshire County Council. Hampshire County Council's fee is £211.90 on application for the first 2 weeks, plus £72 for each additional 2-week period. It also wants a 1:500 plan with signing and guarding proposals, and a frame built to BS EN 12810/12811 or NASC guidance TG20:13. Poles set on land that is not public highway, such as your own drive, lie outside the licence.
Layout decides much of this. An Oakley house with a front garden in front of it can often stand the entire frame on its own land. A house on the lane's edge cannot. At the survey we tell you which you have and what it does to the timetable, because a licence application takes real time at the county's end and cannot be hurried. Ask us early, and the date for the scaffold becomes a plan rather than a hope.
Ridges and verges feature in many local jobs. The ridge caps the very top of the roof, and a verge finishes the sloping edge of a gable. Where the mortar bedding has cracked, dry ridge and verge systems hold the tiles with mechanical fixings instead. A slate roof needs its nails checked as well as its slates, because a good slate can hang on a rusted fixing, and a plain roof repair often means a few tiles, a flashing and a valley.
Whatever the work, the order is the same: survey, consent route, licence if needed, scaffold, repair, clear-up. We tell you where we are at each step and leave the site tidy, with waste taken away and the photographs handed over.
A scaffold that stays up for the wrong reasons costs money, so we line up tiles, battens and underlay before the frame arrives, and ask the scaffolder to strike it as soon as you have signed the work off. Licences are charged by the period, so every idle day shows up on a bill. Next door is told before the frame arrives, positions for skips and deliveries are settled with you, and no drive is blocked without notice. Cracked clay tiles are swapped one at a time, from matched stock where it can be found.
What we can do for your Oakley roof
Oakley roofs: the appraisal, the borough and the scaffold
Does the Church Oakley conservation area appraisal affect which tiles I pick?
The appraisal lists the materials found in the village, including roof tiles, slate and thatch. A new colour or material belongs with Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council before you buy. Putting back what was there is the easiest route, and our survey photographs prove what that was. Ask the council early, since a reply can take time.
Who deals with Building Regulations for an Oakley re-roof?
Basingstoke and Deane's own Building Control team, on 01256 844844, or a registered building control approver as the private choice. On its page, re-covering a roof falls within work that "might also need" approval, so the question goes in before booking. A covering that is 15 per cent heavier or more always needs it, whichever team or approver you use, with a structural check beforehand.
Does the HMO Article 4 direction in Oakley limit roof work?
The Oakley entry on Basingstoke and Deane's list concerns turning dwelling houses into houses in multiple occupation, which is about use and not roofs. That direction does not settle what applies to your street, so ask the council whether any other Article 4 direction touches your address before you order materials, and keep its reply with your papers.
What does an Oakley scaffold licence from Hampshire involve?
The firm putting up the scaffold files the form with Hampshire County Council. Hampshire County Council's fee is £211.90 for the first 2 weeks, then £72 for each further 2-week period. Private ground lies outside the licence. The licence cannot be stretched once granted, so we settle the dates with the scaffolding firm first, and you pay only for the weeks the frame is needed.
Beyond Church Oakley: the next villages
Have your Oakley roof surveyed
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