Roofers in Redlynch
A Wiltshire village inside the New Forest National Park
Redlynch is a Wiltshire parish of 2,655 people whose roofs answer to a national park authority for planning. We survey first, photograph what we find and quote one written price.
Redlynch roofs, from St Birinus to the Kings Head
Church and churchyard roofs
The Church of St Birinus is Grade II, and houses near it are repaired with the church in view.
Kings Head and neighbours
The Kings Head, Grays Cottage and the Lodge to Redlynch House are all Grade II, so detail matters.
Houses inside the National Park
Homes in a parish whose planning authority is the New Forest National Park Authority, not Wiltshire Council.
Redlynch between Downton and Landford
Downton lies to the west, Alderbury to the north, Whiteparish to the north-east and Landford to the east. We repair roofs in all four and in Redlynch.
- Distance
- 27.5 road miles south-west of Andover
- Planning
- New Forest National Park Authority
- Council
- Wiltshire Council
The Redlynch roof report
Local editionRedlynch, WiltshireThree bodies behind one roof
Redlynch has three offices behind one roof, and only one of them is the National Park
Redlynch is in Wiltshire, yet its planning authority is the New Forest National Park Authority. This report separates the three offices an owner may need, explains how the listed church and inn shape a repair, and sets out what a scaffold costs to licence.
Three offices for a single re-roof
Redlynch parish had 2,655 usual residents at the 2021 Census. It lies in Wiltshire, but the village sits inside the New Forest National Park, and that changes who is asked what. Planning applications go to the New Forest National Park Authority, the planning authority for this village. Inspection of the work stays with Wiltshire Council, since a park authority deals with planning and nothing more. The highway, and so the scaffold licence, is Wiltshire Council's too.
In practice that means two sets of web pages for a single job. A like-for-like repair needs neither planning nor inspection, and the survey is enough. A full re-roof begins with two Planning Portal figures: 25 per cent of the building envelope and 50 per cent of the roof are the ceilings below which building control need not be told. Wiltshire Council has no rival percentage. Weight is a separate trigger. Adding 15 per cent or more to the load of the old covering brings Building Regulations approval and a structural look first. A light slate swapped for heavy concrete is the typical case.
Wiltshire Building Control, at Monkton Park in Chippenham, uses 0300 456 0113 to book inspections and take payments. You could appoint a registered building control approver instead, under rules in force from 6 April 2024. Whether you use the council or an approver, we set out at the survey what each would examine, so the paperwork is chosen deliberately and not by default.
The planning side deserves the same care. For addresses inside the Park, the Park Authority is the body for planning, and it publishes its own Article 4 data under the name New Forest National Park Boundary. Which classes it removes is a question for the Authority, so we ask rather than assume. Put your address to the Park Authority's planning team before design work begins, and keep the reply on your job file.
The sequence we follow is simple: survey and photographs, then the consent questions, then one written price. Nothing is ordered, and no scaffold is booked, until the consent route is plain.
If something goes wrong with any roofing job, the Citizens Advice consumer helpline is 0808 223 1133. A trader must also tell you what dispute-resolution arrangement exists if you end up dissatisfied with the result. Ask for that information, and for the cancellation terms, before you sign. A contract made at your own home after a survey carries a 14-day cancellation period, apart from an urgent repair you specifically asked a trader to attend.
St Birinus, the Kings Head and the Lodge
Historic England's list records 6 listed buildings within 500 metres of the middle of Redlynch. The Church of St Birinus is Grade II (list entry 1300201, first listed on 4 July 1985), and the Kings Head is Grade II (1300174), listed on the same date. The Lodge to Redlynch House (1300262) and Grays Cottage (1355672) are also Grade II. Any roof close to them stands beside a protected building.
Listed buildings also need listed building consent for anything altering their character, which is a separate application from planning. On a house or an inn the aim is to put back what was there, with a tile or slate that matches, fixed as before, and salvaged pieces where a new one would show. Photographs and a short description of the repair show an officer what changes and what stays. Reclaimed tiles come from salvage, with weathered faces that new ones lack, and matching means size and thickness as well as colour, so we measure before we source. If a neighbour's boundary or party wall is involved, the person to ask is a party wall surveyor and not building control, and we raise it early so notice periods do not catch you out.
St Birinus is mapped as an Anglican church still used for worship, so roof work there needs a faculty, which the diocese's consistory court grants, rather than listed building consent. A roof job on a house beside the church needs no faculty, but the churchyard wall and the church's own boundary are theirs, and we keep ladders and any frame off them unless told otherwise.
As for conservation areas, those within about 2.5 kilometres of the village include Downton and Western Escarpment. Whether a particular Redlynch address falls inside any designated area is a point for the Park Authority's planning team to confirm. We would sooner you had that answer before a design was drawn than after it was priced.
A final point on the details that show. Chimney stacks, ridges and verges are what a passer-by sees first, so on a protected street these are the parts we photograph most closely.
A survey of a listed or Park roof is recorded in three layers. Wide shots from the road show the roof in its setting. Close shots from the ladder and the slope show each fault: a cracked tile, a gap in the pointing, a lifted flashing. A numbered sheet then ties the photographs to a sketch of the roof. An officer reading that sheet can follow the argument without visiting, which saves time on both sides.
“A Redlynch roof is Wiltshire's to inspect and the National Park's to plan.”
A Wiltshire scaffold permit, and what help exists
Scaffolding that occupies the carriageway or pavement falls under section 169 of the Highways Act 1980. In Redlynch the licensing body is Wiltshire Council, since the Park Authority is not a highway authority. On MiPermit, the portal Wiltshire Council names, the firm supplying the scaffolding makes the application, so the householder files nothing.
Wiltshire Council sets the price of a permit by the notice given, £143.80 for more than three working days and £164.70 for less. A permit runs for 28 days, and Wiltshire Council wants scaffolders to carry public liability insurance of £5 million. Where the garden allows, we plan access across your own ground, which needs no licence at all. The frame is folded into the single written price.
Storm damage has its own order of events. Call the insurer before anything else, put a temporary repair on, and keep photographs and receipts. Whether the weather counts as a storm turns on your policy's own definition, and the Financial Ombudsman Service, on 0800 023 4567, looks at refused claims. A leak is made safe first for our part, and what we find is then written up for the insurer with dated photographs.
Owners sometimes ask about grants. No national scheme pays for a replacement roof. Schemes exist for energy efficiency. ECO4 continues to the end of 2026, the insulation scheme called GBIS has ended, and a Warm Homes grant for insulation is open to lower-income households. None of them funds a roof as such, and because nobody can promise eligibility, each scheme's own page is the place to check.
The work we carry out is mostly the ordinary kind. Roof repairs cover slipped tiles, split ridges and failed flashings; chimney repairs cover pointing, pots and the lead round the stack; and guttering, soffits and fascias cover the roofline. The soffit is the panel beneath the overhanging eaves, while the fascia faces outward and carries the gutter. Each job has the same survey, photographs and single price.
Around a chimney, the parts to know are the stack, the pot, the flaunching and the flashing. Flaunching is the mortar collar around the pot that carries water off the top of the stack. Flashing, often lead, seals the junction where the stack meets the roof slope. Cracked flaunching and lifted flashing let water in at exactly the point where it is hardest to see from the ground, and both are routine finds when we climb to a stack.
Roofing help for Redlynch streets
Redlynch roofs: the Park, the listings and the permit
Who decides planning for a roof change in Redlynch?
The New Forest National Park Authority, because the village lies inside the Park. Wiltshire Council covers inspection and the highway, so you may need both bodies. A like-for-like repair may need neither, and the survey establishes that. Where the roof's appearance would change, we put the question to the Park Authority's planning team before any design or order, and report its reply with your price.
Does Wiltshire Council or the Park Authority licence the scaffold in Redlynch?
Wiltshire Council does, as highway authority, and the scaffolding supplier applies on its MiPermit portal. Wiltshire Council charges £143.80 for early applications of over three working days and £164.70 for later ones, and each permit lasts 28 days. A park authority issues no scaffold licences, and a frame on your own ground needs none, so access across the garden is considered first.
Can the Grade II Kings Head roof in Redlynch be re-covered in new tiles?
Possibly, with listed building consent, because work that affects a listed building's character needs it. The aim is a match with the existing tiles in size, colour and fixing, drawing on salvage where required. We photograph the roof and describe the proposal for the planning team, and we would not order tiles before the consent position is clear.
Can a Redlynch homeowner get help paying for roof work?
Nothing national funds a replacement roof as such. Both ECO4 and the insulation scheme that ended in March 2026 deal with energy efficiency and not with roof coverings. A Warm Homes grant for insulation exists for households below an income limit. Look at each scheme's own page, because we cannot promise anyone's eligibility.
Get your Redlynch roof surveyed before you plan
Please send your address, and a roof photo too if one is handy. A survey, the right offices and one price follow.
10-year workmanship guarantee, in writing.