South Coast
Surveyors on theSussex coastline & Downs.
Topographical surveys for residential and mixed-use developers, setting out for housebuilders, and structural monitoring of coastal and listed structures across East and West Sussex — from Brighton's seafront regeneration to Horsham's growing residential fringe.
Surveying in Sussex.
Sussex construction splits into two distinct landscapes. Along the coastal strip — Brighton, Worthing, Eastbourne, Hastings — projects tend to be constrained: tight residential infills, seafront regeneration, and listed-building conversions where the party-wall surveyor is already involved before ground is broken. Inland and across the Downs — Crawley, Horsham, Burgess Hill, Haywards Heath — the sites open up into strategic housing allocations, garden villages and mixed-use masterplans that need large-scale topographical surveys covering 10 to 50 hectares in a single mobilisation.
We tailor our capture method to each Sussex site type. For a half-acre listed-building conversion in Lewes, that means a careful total-station topo tied to local control with a crack-metre and tilt-sensor monitoring package designed around the conservation officer's requirements. For a 200-dwelling masterplan parcel near Horsham, it means DJI Matrice 350 drone photogrammetry over the full plot, combined with GNSS and robotic detail on access roads and boundary features, delivered as a 3D DWG and Revit model with a TIN surface for earthworks cut-and-fill analysis.
Our structural monitoring service in Sussex covers a growing segment: coastal erosion structures, listed façades in conservation areas, and third-party assets adjacent to basement and underpinning work. We run the same Leica TM60 ATS and GeoMoS Now! cloud platform that our London monitoring teams use — the difference is simply that Sussex trigger levels are often set around heritage-sensitivity rather than transport-infrastructure proximity.
Projects we deliver in Sussex.
- Residential
Housebuilding & strategic housing sites
Topographical surveys, setting out and as-built reporting for NHBC-registered housebuilders across the Crawley, Horsham, Haywards Heath and Burgess Hill growth corridors — plots range from 30 to 500+ dwellings.
- Coastal
Seafront regeneration & coastal structures
Topographical and measured-building surveys for seafront regeneration in Brighton, Worthing, Eastbourne and Bexhill — often integrated with structural monitoring of sea defences, promenades and listed façades.
- Heritage
Listed-building & conservation-area works
Detailed measured surveys of listed buildings and conservation-area properties across the South Downs and coastal towns — supporting planning applications, façade repair, underpinning and conversion schemes.
Towns & areas we cover.
We're typically on a Sussexsite within 24 hours of instruction. If your postcode isn't in this list, ask — our coverage extends further than the headline towns.
- Brighton & Hove
- Crawley
- Horsham
- Worthing
- Eastbourne
- Chichester
- Haywards Heath
- Burgess Hill
- Lewes
- Hastings
- Bognor Regis
- Bexhill
Why teams in Sussex work with us.
The differences are practical, not marketing. Here's what Sussex clients tell us they value.
- Drone photogrammetry for large greenfield housing plots
- Heritage-sensitive monitoring with conservation-officer liaison
- Integrated BS 5837 tree surveys captured in the same session
- Same team from topo through to construction setting out
- Fully insured: £10 m PL / £5 m PI with project-specific cover
- Experience with South Downs National Park planning requirements
Services available in Sussex.
Sussex survey FAQs.
- Do you cover both East and West Sussex?
- Yes. We work regularly in Brighton, Crawley, Horsham, Worthing, Eastbourne, Chichester, Haywards Heath, Lewes, Hastings and everywhere in between. Mobilisation is typically within 48 hours from instruction.
- Can you survey a coastal site with cliff-edge or sea-defence constraints?
- Yes. We have experience surveying along the Sussex coastline where access is restricted by sea defences, cliff edges or tidal windows. Where safe foot access is limited, we deploy drone photogrammetry to capture the hazard zone and tie the data into the ground-level topo seamlessly.
- Do you do listed-building monitoring in conservation areas?
- We do. Our monitoring packages for listed buildings include vibrating-wire crack metres on historic façades, biaxial tilt sensors on structural walls, and Leica TM60 ATS prism monitoring — all connected to a GeoMoS Now! cloud dashboard. Trigger levels are agreed in consultation with the conservation officer and the party-wall surveyor.
- How does your topo survey help with the planning application?
- The topo survey is the baseline document that underpins the site-layout plan, the drainage strategy and the cut-and-fill analysis that the planning authority assesses. We deliver to RICS Band B by default, with optional BS 5837 tree data, flood-zone annotation and utility-overlay attribution — all formatted so the planning consultant can drop it straight into the submission.
Sussex brief
Need a survey team
in Sussex this week?
Drop us a red-line boundary and we'll price the topo, the setting out programme, or both — same-day turnaround on fees.