Where we get to
Local firm, local roofs
We’re based in Washington, just outside Worthing, and we mostly serve West Sussex, Hampshire and parts of Surrey and the South Coast.
In short: the towns and county edges inside thirty road miles of Washington, surveyed free and quoted in writing. What a system costs and what help exists differs by county: see solar panel cost in Surrey, grants in Surrey, solar panel cost in East Sussex and grants in East Sussex, each with a PVGIS worked example and the assumptions shown; the planning position for each county is in Surrey and East Sussex guides.
Everywhere we routinely work
We know these lanes — including the ones the van only just fits down — and we know what this weather does to a roof. Distances are approximate road miles from our base at Washington.
The area pages, and a good many places besides
The towns below sit inside one of the areas above rather than having a page of their own. That is deliberate: we would rather write one page with something real in it than fifteen that say the same thing with the name swapped.
Worthing
The town we give as our own location. Seven miles of the A24 separates the workshop from the seafront, which makes Worthing the closest thing we have to a home patch.
7 miles · West SussexStorrington & Pulborough
The nearest villages to the workshop — Pulborough is where the company is registered — on the doorstep of the South Downs National Park.
7 miles · West SussexShoreham-by-Sea
Ten road miles down the A283 from the workshop, Shoreham-by-Sea is a harbour town with a working port, five conservation areas close by and a coastline that decides how we specify fixings before we have seen the roof.
10 miles · West SussexBillingshurst
Ten road miles north-west of the workshop, Billingshurst is a Horsham District village with its own conservation area and appraisal, a growing housing stock, and one thing that sets it apart from most of our patch: a different electricity network operator.
10 miles · West SussexLittlehampton
Flat and coastal, with a more mixed housing stock than its seaside reputation suggests — semis, terraces and flats in roughly equal measure.
12 miles · West SussexHorsham
Washington sits inside the Horsham district, so this is not a town we travel to so much as the one we are already in — thirteen road miles up the A24, with Horsham stone roofs, four town-centre conservation areas and two network operators to get right.
13 miles · West SussexBrighton & Hove
The biggest roofscape on this stretch of coast, and the most complicated. Brighton is dense, steep, listed in places and windy everywhere.
17 miles · East SussexBurgess Hill
Nineteen road miles north-east of the workshop, Burgess Hill is a Mid Sussex town we reach along the A24 and A272 for solar, battery and electrical work — and the one where the local council’s own energy targets are most clearly written down.
19 miles · West SussexHaywards Heath
Nineteen road miles north-east of the workshop, Haywards Heath is the largest of the Mid Sussex towns we cover, with five conservation areas on the council’s list, a railway-town housing stock and a district council whose energy targets are written down.
19 miles · West SussexChichester
Chichester is where our telephone number lives — 01243 is the city’s own dialling code — and it is a city where the roof usually has an opinion about the array.
21 miles · West SussexEast Sussex
The eastern edge of the patch and the South Coast half of our own coverage statement: Lewes and the coast down to Peacehaven and Newhaven, reached along the A27, with Seaford, Uckfield and Eastbourne beyond the thirty-mile line.
County page · the East Sussex edge of the patchLewes
Twenty-three road miles east along the A27, Lewes is the largest town in any National Park and the East Sussex end of our patch: a conservation area that covers almost the whole historic town, the Park authority on planning, the river cutting through the chalk, and UK Power Networks on the paperwork.
23 miles · East SussexSurrey
The northern edge of the patch and the “parts of Surrey” in our own coverage statement: the Weald-side towns from Haslemere round to Horley, reached up the A24 and the A281, with the thirty-mile line falling at Reigate and just short of Guildford.
County page · the Surrey edge of the patchDorking
Twenty-six road miles straight up the A24 from the workshop, Dorking is the Surrey town we reach most directly: a market town between Box Hill and Leith Hill, with a conservation area that carries Article 4 controls, a lower modelled yield than the coast, and UK Power Networks on the paperwork.
26 miles · SurreyEast Grinstead
Twenty-seven road miles north-east of the workshop and the top corner of our patch: a Mid Sussex market town at the meeting point of four counties, with a medieval High Street inside a conservation area and the High Weald on two sides of it.
27 miles · West SussexPetersfield
The Hampshire end of the patch, named in their own coverage statement, and the furthest they routinely travel.
30 miles · HampshireThe same certifications, whichever end of the patch you are on.
The next step
Book your free survey
Thirty to forty-five minutes, at your house, at no cost. We look at the roof, the fuse board and how you actually use the place — then send you a clear quote with the assumptions shown.
- Call 01243 882444
- Email hello@solar-squirrel.co.uk
- Based Washington, West Sussex
If solar genuinely won’t pay for itself on your usage, we’ll say so and save us both an afternoon.
Rather see the numbers before you speak to anybody? Put your own bill on the house — it works out the size, the saving and the payback while you watch, and brings them down to this form with you.