Budleigh Salterton drone survey, Devon

The road out to Budleigh Salterton runs by the A376 to Exmouth and then the coast road round, covering the roughly 11.1 miles from our Exeter base. It's one of the closest places we cover, so a booking here sits alongside the rest of the work we do across East Devon.

Budleigh Salterton sits on the same pricing system as the rest of Devon: address and brief decide the number in EX9, not which side of East Devon the job happens to sit on.

Weather decides the flying day for Budleigh Salterton the same way it does across East Devon: wind, rain and poor light stop a flight, and a reschedule for EX9 costs nothing.

A Budleigh Salterton flight in EX9 carries the same CAA registration and Coverdrone cover as a job in Exeter itself, checked before the aircraft leaves the case, whatever East Devon it's flying over.

Victorian and Edwardian villas, a good deal of substantial detached housing in generous plots, bungalows on the higher ground, and a mature retirement population meaning many properties are long-held and lightly altered. That mix is a fair description of what a EX9 job in Budleigh Salterton usually involves: rarely one single building type, more a case of asking what stands where.

Locally, in Budleigh Salterton: A small coastal town at the mouth of the Otter, with a pebble beach, the Otter estuary and its reed beds to the east, and wooded slopes rising sharply behind the high street. None of that stops a EX9 survey happening, it's simply factored into the flight plan alongside the address and the brief. Budleigh beach is the kind of local landmark that makes a EX9 address in Budleigh Salterton easy to picture, not far from Otter Estuary Nature Reserve.

A chimney check is a common ask around Budleigh Salterton, usually paired with a general roof look while the aircraft is already up over a EX9 property.

Devon covers a lot of ground, and East Devon is the slice of it Budleigh Salterton sits in, EX9 included. That grouping is mostly for our own planning.

Budleigh Salterton is covered as part of the wider East Devon area, which includes Exmouth, Sidmouth and Ottery St Mary. That breadth in EX9 is really the point of working from one base rather than several.

For a Budleigh Salterton job specifically, the EX9 postcode tells us which East Devon run it fits into, and the dates tell us when to start looking at the weather.

The report for a EX9 job doesn't vary by distance from Exeter: written within 48 hours, covering what was actually seen at the Budleigh Salterton address on the day.

The same run usually takes in Topsham as well, and closer to Budleigh Salterton itself, The Octagon and East Devon Way are the kind of landmarks that make an address easy to place before we've even driven out.