Homes along Send Road
Guildford's settlement profile describes Send as a large village spread along Send Road, with the River Wey around it.
Roofers in Send
Roofs along Send Road, Potters Lane and Send Hill
Send is a large village spread along Send Road, with the River Wey curling round it. We survey each roof properly, then write one clear price.
Send's roads, hills and a 13th-century church
Potters Lane and Send Hill
Homes branch off Send Road down Potters Lane and along Send Hill, so roofs sit on many side roads.
Church, memorial and Potters Lane
The chancel of St Mary's dates from about 1240, and Send's war memorial gained Grade II listing in 2016.
Map of Send with Old Woking, Mayford, Ripley, Jacobs Well marked around it.
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Send, inside a loop of the River Wey
Send stands north-east of Guildford in the Send Gravel Terrace landscape area, with the River Wey round its north and west sides and Farnborough 12.7 road miles west.
About 12.7 road miles east of Farnborough · Guildford Borough Council and Surrey County Council.
Send homes: our roof services
Send, rules and records
A Send roof, from council rules to the church
Which councils decide each part of a Send roof job, what the village's recorded history says about its ground and its church, and how the Wey conservation area and two Grade II listings enter the picture.
| No. | Chapter | The figure it turns on |
|---|---|---|
| 01 | Guildford's rules and Surrey's highways | Guildford plans, Surrey licenses scaffold |
| 02 | Gravel, clay and an old chancel | St Mary's chancel built about 1240 |
| 03 | The Wey navigation and Send War Memorial | Wey and Godalming Navigations within 0.75 km |
Chapter 01 of 03
Guildford's rules and Surrey's highways
| Part of the job | Body for Send |
|---|---|
| Planning | Guildford Borough Council |
| Building control | Guildford Borough Council, its own service |
| Highway and scaffold licence | Surrey County Council (until 31 March 2027) |
| Civil parish | Send |
| Distance from Farnborough | 12.7 road miles east, measured from the A325 |
For planning, and for building control, which it runs itself, Send answers to Guildford Borough Council. Surrey County Council keeps the highways until 31 March 2027, and a new West Surrey Council then takes up the borough's and the county's work. The present split holds until that day. Send is 12.7 road miles from Farnborough; the count starts at the A325, as every journey we quote does.
How big a job is it?
Nothing Guildford publishes gives a local cut-off, which leaves the Planning Portal guidance as the yardstick. Work below 25 per cent of the building envelope and below 50 per cent of the roof does not usually need an application. A covering that weighs 15 per cent or more above its predecessor is a separate case, calling for approval and a structural check, and it can be a live question where a heavy tile goes onto an older timber roof.
On the survey day we measure the slope areas and identify what is on the roof now. A job that lands near the line is flagged to you at once, and the council or a registered building control approver has the last word.
Ask what a Send roof quote assumes about scaffold, VAT and carting off old tiles, because a low figure that leaves them out shows its gap later, on site, when it is hardest to argue. Our price is a single written figure covering the full job, so a Send owner can read it beside any rival quote on equal terms.
Scaffold along Send Road
Poles that stand on a Send footway need Surrey County Council's licence until April 2027. Its fee is £208 per 28-day period, repeated if you renew, and none of it comes back if the application is withdrawn. Paperwork should reach the council at least 10 working days before the start date. The council's page does not settle who files the form, a point for the scaffolder at booking, before any date is promised to you.
Send Road carries traffic, and a house that fronts it may have little ground between its wall and the footway. Homes on Potters Lane or Send Hill may have more room. We measure the frontage on the first visit, with the width of the footway noted, and you hear then whether the poles can stand on your own ground or must go on the public footway.
Chapter 02 of 03
Gravel, clay and an old chancel
Send's recorded past and present
- About 1240St Mary's chancel, the church's oldest part
- Late 1300swhen the nave was rebuilt
- 4,243residents, ONS Census 2021, Send parish
- Brickfieldsrecorded on the London Clay in 1911
The 1911 county history dates the chancel of St Mary the Virgin to about 1240, making it the oldest part, and records a nave rebuilt late in the 14th century and a west tower added later, with a timber south porch. It adds that some heavy Horsham slabs remained on the lower parts of the nave roof, with red tiles elsewhere. The same history notes brickfields on the London Clay in the parish, and that Send itself stands on a patch of Bagshot Sand. The 2021 Census puts the parish at 4,243 usual residents.
A village that spreads
Guildford's settlement profile describes Send as a large village spread along Send Road, with homes branching off down Potters Lane and Send Hill, and the River Wey running round it to the north and west. For a roofer, the word that matters is spread. A compact village has a handful of building types close together, while a spread-out one has farms, cottages, infill homes and newer houses on roads of different character. No single roof tells you about the rest.
Clay was dug for bricks in this parish, yet that says nothing about what covers any house today, so we assume nothing. What we do know is that a house on a gravel terrace behind a hedge and a house on a rise like Send Hill sit in different conditions of shelter and tree cover. Leaves, moss and gutter blockages matter more where trees are close, and a hedge that has grown past the gutter line deserves a trim before winter. We check outlets and valleys on every visit and photograph them.
Brickfields in the parish mean that a Send house may have been built with local brick, and a later extension with something quite different. Where an old part meets a newer part, the roof junction takes the strain, and the flashing there is the first place we look when a ceiling shows a stain. It is rarely the covering itself that has failed.
The church and the parish
About 1240date of St Mary's chancel, its oldest part
4,243usual residents in Send parish, Census 2021
The church shows how old building and repair go together. Its timber south porch and its tower are the kind of roof features that need a specialist eye. For a house, the same care applies on a smaller scale: ridges, verges and eaves are where repair matters most.
Our chimney repairs page explains how stacks and their flashings are renewed, which is often the first repair an older Send house needs.
Chapter 03 of 03
The Wey navigation and Send War Memorial
| Control | Near Send | For roof work |
|---|---|---|
| Conservation area | Wey and Godalming Navigations, within about 0.75 km | Check Guildford's map for your address |
| Article 4 layer | Check on Guildford's map | May affect chimneys |
| Grade II listed | Send War Memorial (NHLE 1437626), listed 13 September 2016 | Listed building consent |
| Grade II listed | Willingham Cottage (NHLE 1029341) | Listed building consent |
The Wey and Godalming Navigations conservation area lies within about 0.75 km of the centre of Send. Whether your own house falls inside it is a matter of a map, and Guildford's conservation area page directs owners to check by postcode. We do that before the survey, so any extra care is planned in from the start.
Chimneys under Article 4
Guildford manages change in conservation areas with Article 4 directions, and where one reaches an address a stack may not be taken down or altered without consent. Its map has an Article 4 layer for owners to select. A leaning stack, tired pointing or a failed flashing is upkeep. Demolishing the stack is a separate step. We tell you on which side of that divide your job sits, and anything marginal goes to the planning team.
Two listings
Send War Memorial gained its Grade II listing on 13 September 2016, and Willingham Cottage is listed Grade II too. For a listed house, any work that would affect the building's character needs listed building consent from Guildford Borough Council. Roof repairs on a listed house are handled with that in mind: matching materials, close records and an early conversation with the council.
The figure0.75kmfrom the village centre to the Wey and Godalming Navigations conservation area0.75 to the conservation areaSource: planning.data.gov.uk conservation-area dataset, area query
An unlisted Send house outside the navigation conservation area has more freedom, but the same habits pay. Matching the original tile, ridge and verge keeps the street looking right and makes the house easier to sell. Our pitched roofing page shows how these repairs go.
The memorial and the cottage show that listing reaches small buildings as well as grand ones. A modest listed cottage needs the same consent as a manor house, so the first question for any older Send property is whether the national list names it. The answer takes minutes to find, and it changes the approach to the whole job, from the survey notes to the order of work and the timetable.
If you are unsure which category your house is in, send us the address and a photograph of the front. Before the survey we can read the council's map, the listing records and the Article 4 layer, then report the findings plainly.
Send roof questions, from the Wey to the chimney stack
My Send house stands among tall hedges and trees: how often should gutters and valleys be cleared?
There is no fixed interval, because it depends on how close the trees are and what they drop. We check outlets and valleys on every survey and photograph them, so the report shows you the state of each. If leaves collect quickly, a yearly clear before winter is a sensible habit, and we can advise on the roof's own risks.
Do I need Guildford's permission to repair a chimney in Send?
Repointing or renewing a flashing is ordinary upkeep. Guildford says that where an Article 4 direction covers an address, taking a chimney down or altering it needs consent, and it points owners to its map. We look up your address first and put any change to the planners before pricing it.
Who licenses scaffold if it has to stand on Send Road?
Surrey County Council (until April 2027) charges £208 per 28 days for scaffold on the public road or footway, and wants 10 working days of notice before the start. The page never names the party who files it, so put the question of who applies to the scaffolder when you book. Poles kept on your own ground sit outside the licence, where a plot has room for them.
Can I alter the roof of a house near Send War Memorial without special consent?
Only if the house is not listed and no direction applies. Send War Memorial and Willingham Cottage are listed Grade II, and work affecting a listed building's character needs listed building consent from Guildford Borough Council. For an unlisted house, we check the conservation area and Article 4 layers on the council's map.
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