17 miles from the workshop
Solar panels in Brighton & Hove
The biggest roofscape on this stretch of coast, and the most complicated. Brighton is dense, steep, listed in places and windy everywhere.
What we find on Brighton & Hove roofs
Rear elevations and flat roofs do most of the work in Brighton. A ballasted flat-roof array is often the honest answer.
Distance, geography, housing stock and the planning position all change how a system gets designed. These are the ones that decide it in Brighton & Hove.
What we take into account here
- Approximately 17 road miles east of Washington along the A283 and A27.
- A city on the Channel coast, built up the chalk slope of the South Downs — street gradients that make scaffold access a genuine design input.
- Dense Regency and Victorian terraced stock, much of it three and four storeys, frequently with slate at a shallow pitch and parapets or bay projections in the way.
- More than thirty conservation areas across the city, plus a very large listed-building count in the Regency squares — front-elevation panels are rarely a permitted-development question there.
- Exposed coastal position with high wind loading off the Channel; fixings and clamping are specified to the exposure, not to the catalogue.
- Falls within the “South Coast” of our own published coverage statement.
- Solar PV, battery storage, EV chargers and electrical work, all from the Washington base.
Also covered from here
Shoreham-by-Sea is covered from this page rather than having one of its own — the same vans and the same survey.
The systems that suit Brighton & Hove
Three arrangements cover most of what goes on a East Sussex roof. Which one your house wants is decided at the survey, on the roof itself — not from a satellite image.
Our own photographs. They show the systems we design and fit — not specific completed jobs in Brighton & Hove, and no customer or address is identified.
The same certifications, whichever end of the patch you are on.
Other areas we cover
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.