Building & Site Survey in Fulham

Scaffold-free aerial roof, land, topographic and building surveys across Fulham — flown in line with CAA regulations and the UK Drone Code, with a plain-English report usually within a few days.

The buildings and sites we survey in Fulham

Fulham is dominated by late-Victorian and Edwardian two- and three-storey terraces in London stock brick with slate roofs and butterfly valleys behind parapets. The Peterborough Estate, south of New Kings Road, is red brick with the terracotta lions on the gables that give the Lion Houses their name. Conservation areas include Peterborough Estate, Parsons Green, Hurlingham, Sands End and Fulham Reach, alongside Grade I listed Fulham Palace and Bishop's Park. Sands End is the outlier: former gasworks and industrial land now carrying Imperial Wharf and the Chelsea Harbour fringe, where the survey subject is a modern high-rise envelope rather than a period roof.

Why can't my roofer just tell me what's wrong with a Fulham butterfly roof?

Because the interesting part is behind the parapet. On a typical SW6 terrace the two pitches fall inwards to a central valley gutter that is invisible from the street and awkward and unsafe to reach from a ladder. A drone gets directly above it and captures the gutter run, the flashings, the parapet copings and the party-wall junctions in high resolution — so the diagnosis comes before the scaffold quote rather than after it.

Is Fulham inside a drone restriction zone?

Part of it may be. The London Heliport's Flight Restriction Zone reaches towards eastern SW6, is active around the clock and applies to every drone regardless of weight. We check your exact address against the current NATS restriction map before quoting and tell you what permission is needed, how much notice it realistically takes and whether the job works. Nothing gets flown on assumption.

Can you survey a flat in a block, or only whole buildings?

Both, but the permission differs. For a single flat we normally need the freeholder or managing agent to consent to the flight, because the roof and elevations we are capturing are common parts. In practice a lot of our Imperial Wharf and Sands End work comes from managing agents directly, covering the whole envelope in one visit and giving every leaseholder the same imagery.

How much of the street will notice, and do I need to warn neighbours?

Less than you would expect. A Fulham roof survey is usually a single visit of under an hour with the operator on the ground and no scaffolding, ladders or parking suspension. We do brief neighbours when the flight path crosses their garden or the launch point sits close to their boundary — it is good practice and it removes the awkward conversation afterwards. Imagery and report normally follow within a few days.