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Roofers in Pease Pottage

Pease Pottage occupies high ground on the High Weald's Forest Ridge, where the Horsham road leaves the old Brighton road south of Crawley. Our survey reads each roof from ladder and loft.

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Three Pease Pottage roof settings and what they ask of a roofer

  • Tiled roofs on high ground

    Roofs on the Forest Ridge

    The village is on the Forest Ridge, a raised part of the High Weald, so its roofs stand high and take whatever weather comes.

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    A renewed covering here is fixed to a specification written for that particular site.

  • Scaffold on a semi-detached house

    A crossroads village by the motorway

    Pease Pottage lies where the road to Horsham branches west off the Brighton and London road, beside the motorway junction.

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    Scaffold, deliveries and parking for a roofing job are planned early, because the approaches are busy.

  • A former chapel roof

    Slaugham parish and a closed chapel

    Pease Pottage was one of four districts of Slaugham parish. Its Church of the Ascension, a chapel of ease licensed in 1875, has closed and become offices, which shows how a building's use can change its roof rules.

Street map of Pease Pottage, north of central Worthing, with a pin on the town.

Planning facts for roofs

Planning authority
Mid Sussex District Council
Councils
Mid Sussex District Council and West Sussex County Council
Conservation area
None; Pease Pottage is not among Mid Sussex District Council's conservation areas
Parish church
St Mary's, Slaugham, Church of England
Former chapel
Church of the Ascension, licensed 1875, now closed and used as offices
From central Worthing
28.3 road miles, north, about 38 minutes by car

Pease Pottage roofs

A ridge, a crossroads and a closed chapel

Three roofing matters that come from where Pease Pottage stands and how its parish grew.

Chapter one

A ridge-top village and how its tiles are fixed

High ground on the Forest Ridge means fixing plans are written for the site, not for the street.

Pease Pottage stands on the Forest Ridge, a raised belt of the High Weald made of sandstones and thin clays, the Hastings Beds. For a roofer the useful word in that description is ridge. A house on raised ground has fewer neighbours and trees to break the wind than one in a valley, and the fixing of its roof covering deserves thought to match. Marley explains that the Eurocode method for wind load starts from the site's basic wind speed and adjusts it for terrain, topography and the size of the building. None of that is guesswork done from the pavement. It is the reason we request the tile maker's site-specific specification when a roof here is renewed, rather than nailing to habit, and it is why a survey photograph of your own slope is more useful than a general rule.

At a glance

  • Fixings are specified by location and local exposure
  • Below a 30 degree pitch, windward suction becomes severe
  • BS 8612:2018 is the test standard for dry-fix ridges

1.1 Pitch, suction and the first row of tiles

Marley's rule of thumb is a pitch below 30 degrees; under that angle, suction on the windward side becomes severe. Shallow roofs, such as an extension or a garage added to the side of a house, are therefore the first places we look for lifting. Wienerberger sets one mechanical fixing as the minimum for every single-lap tile, so none rests on weight and friction alone. Marley reads BS 5534 as fixing the perimeter tiles twice. On a ridge-top house the edges, meaning the verges and the eaves, are where a storm starts to take a roof apart, so those rows get the closest inspection and the most secure fixing.

1.2 Ridges and hips, mortar or dry

Along the crown of a roof runs the ridge; at a corner, the hip slopes down from it. Since the 2014 revision of BS 5534 these tiles are screwed or clipped as well as bedded, since a mortar bed by itself is no longer judged enough. A dry-fix ridge swaps the mortar bed for clips and a ventilated roll, and BS 8612:2018 is the standard it is tested to. Either route can be right, and the survey says which suits your tiles and your roof. If your covering is concrete, Marley expects around 60 years of life and MyBuilder says 30 to 50, so age is a reason to survey rather than a verdict. Our ridge tile repairs page sets out the choices.

Fixing facts for an exposed pitched roof

Code of practice
BS 5534:2014+A2:2018 (BSI)
Ridge, hip and verge dry-fixing
BS 8612:2018 (BSI)
Single-lap tiles
Minimum of one mechanical fixing (Wienerberger)
Pitch below 30 degrees
Severe suction on the windward side (Marley)
Perimeter tiles
Fixed twice under BS 5534 (Marley)

Source: BSI; Marley; Wienerberger, fetched October 2026

Chapter two

No conservation area, a closed chapel and consent

Pease Pottage has no conservation area, but its two churches show how consent depends on a building's status and use.

Knapped flint wall meeting the eaves of an old clay tile roof
Knapped flint wall meeting the eaves of an old clay tile roof

Mid Sussex District Council's list of conservation areas does not include Pease Pottage, and that simplifies one question and leaves several others open. It means the extra layer of control that a conservation area brings is absent, so a householder renewing a tiled roof is dealing mainly with ordinary rules. It does not mean the roof is a free-for-all. A house can still be listed, a planning condition can still restrict the covering, and an Article 4 direction can still apply to a street, and Mid Sussex District Council's planning team can settle each of those points in a short call.

At a glance

  • Pease Pottage is not in a Mid Sussex conservation area
  • The Church of the Ascension has closed and become offices
  • Slaugham's parish church is St Mary's, Church of England
Sussex flint church with a sweeping Horsham stone roof and lichen-covered slabs
Sussex flint church with a sweeping stone roof and lichen-covered slabs

2.1 What changes when a church closes

The Church of the Ascension began as a chapel of ease to Slaugham, licensed in 1875. It has closed and been turned into offices. That matters because the ecclesiastical exemption, which lets the Church of England approve works to its own listed churches, stops applying once a church closes for worship. The government's guidance on the exemption says a closed Church of England church is fully subject to the normal listed building and conservation area controls. So if a building like that is listed, its roof is repaired with the council's listed building consent, not the Church's faculty. On any converted chapel, then, a survey and a call to the council about its listing come first.

Sussex flint church with a sweeping Horsham stone roof and lichen-covered slabs
Sussex flint church with a sweeping stone roof and lichen-covered slabs

2.2 The parish church still in use

St Mary's at Slaugham is still used for worship, and an Anglican church in that position is dealt with through the Church's own faculty process in place of council listed building consent. If a roof nearby belongs to a house, a barn or an outbuilding rather than the church, the ordinary rules apply, and the same survey logic is used. Our roof inspections and surveys page describes what we photograph. Where a roof window or a dormer is wanted, our roof planning permission guide explains the planning side. Nesting birds are protected, so a stripped eaves line is checked for nests first.

What people sayWithout a conservation area, a roof can be altered with no consent at all.

What is trueBuilding Regulations apply everywhere, and a listing or a planning condition can still require consent.

Chapter three

Scaffold, access and the quote on a busy approach

With a motorway junction nearby, planning the scaffold and the deliveries matters as much as choosing the tiles.

A re-roof here starts long before the first tile comes off. Scaffold that blocks a pavement or road needs a licence under the Highways Act, and in West Sussex the licensing authority is the county council. The council wants at least 10 working days' notice, counted from application to erection, and lists a one-month scaffold licence at £266, with a fast-track option for an extra £52. A month's licence can be extended for £178, while a late extension carries a £335 charge, so a realistic programme saves money. The scaffold firm applies, not the householder, and we build our dates around that notice so the roof is not held up by paperwork. Deliveries to a busy approach road are timed too, and waste leaves the site with us. Neighbours on a crossroads approach are told when the scaffold is going up, since deliveries and the skip both take space. Where the roof edge overhangs a private drive rather than a pavement, a highway licence may not come into it, but we still agree with you where the scaffold stands and where materials will sit.

At a glance

  • West Sussex County Council asks for 10 working days' notice
  • The scaffold firm applies for the scaffold licence
  • VAT of 20 per cent applies to a re-roof
Row of concrete sectional garages with weathered grey corrugated roofs
Row of concrete sectional garages with weathered grey corrugated roofs

3.1 When Building Regulations step in

Planning Portal guidance puts the cut-off for ordinary re-covering at 25 per cent of the building envelope and 50 per cent of the roof; beyond either, you need a building control application. Part L adds a second test. It treats renovation of more than 50 per cent of a roof's surface as the trigger for upgrading the whole roof, and a new or replacement roof element should reach a limiting U-value of 0.15 W/(m²·K). That is a thermal rule, in plain terms asking for more insulation. A registered building control approver or the council's building control team handles the application, and where work is notifiable we make the notification.

Row of concrete sectional garages with weathered grey corrugated roofs
Row of concrete sectional garages with weathered grey corrugated roofs

3.2 What the price turns on

Roof size, pitch, access, scaffold and the covering, plus whatever lies under the old tiles, all shape the total. Standard-rate VAT applies to a re-roof (20 per cent), so confirm that every quote on your table says if VAT and scaffolding are included. Ask each firm what happens to the old covering and how the ridge is fixed. Our roof replacement page lays out the stages of a complete re-roof. When the scaffold comes down, the old tiles have already left in our vehicle and the drive is swept.

Typical UK costs for scaffold and a semi re-roof

  • Scaffold, two-storey house£850 to £1,200
  • Chimney scaffold£400 to £900
  • Gable re-roof, semi£5,000 to £8,000
  • Hipped re-roof, semi£8,000 to £12,000

A single total, written down once the survey is complete, replaces any guesswork from a national guide. Source: MyBuilder new roof and scaffolding cost guides, updated 21/08/2026.

Roofing help for Pease Pottage's ridge-top houses

Pease Pottage roof questions, from the Forest Ridge to the junction

Do roofs on the Forest Ridge need different fixings from sheltered ones?

The fixing plan should reflect the site. Per Wienerberger, the tile maker's specification weighs location, altitude and local exposure, and it is the paper we request for a new roof. On repairs, any ridge or verge we disturb is fixed mechanically, not simply bedded back. High ground is the reason to take care over the edges of the roof, where wind does its damage first.

The old Church of the Ascension is offices now: does that change how its roof is dealt with?

It can. Government guidance says a closed Church of England church is fully subject to the normal listed building and conservation area controls once it stops being used for regular worship. If the building is listed, roof work would need listed building consent from the council. Whether this one is listed is a question for Mid Sussex District Council's planning team.

Pease Pottage has no conservation area, so can I change my roof tiles to another colour?

Having no conservation area removes one layer of control, not all of them. Renewing in the identical material rarely raises a planning question, but a different colour or material changes how the house looks, and a condition on an earlier permission may apply. Ask Mid Sussex District Council's planning team before ordering tiles, and keep their reply.

Who checks a large re-roof in Pease Pottage if it needs approval?

Either a registered building control approver of your choice or the district council's building control team. Approval is needed once work passes 25 per cent of the building envelope or 50 per cent of the roof, or when a heavier covering adds 15 per cent or more to the load, per the Planning Portal. We explain which route fits and make the notification where the work is notifiable.

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