Sherborne drone survey, Dorset

The road out to Sherborne runs by the A30 and A303 past Yeovil, into Dorset, covering the roughly 47.1 miles from our Exeter base. It's towards the outer edge of where we cover, so a booking here sits alongside the rest of the work we do across North Dorset.

One surveyor, one aircraft, one van working Dorset and the wider South West, so a Sherborne booking in DT9 never needs a separate travel charge added to the fixed price.

Wind, rain and poor light stop a Sherborne flight the same as they would in Exeter itself. A DT9 reschedule is planned around the forecast, never around a long drive.

Flights around Sherborne are planned under the same Civil Aviation Authority rules as anywhere on the North Dorset round, aircraft, Operator ID and Flyer ID checked before DT9 is even in the diary.

An exceptionally consistent hamstone town centre, Georgian and Victorian townhouses, school and abbey buildings with substantial complex roofs, and modern estates on the northern edge. That mix is a fair description of what a DT9 job in Sherborne usually involves: rarely one single building type, more a case of asking what stands where.

Locally, in Sherborne: An abbey town in the Yeo valley in north Dorset, on gently rising hamstone country with the two castles and their park to the east. None of that stops a DT9 survey happening, it's simply factored into the flight plan alongside the address and the brief. Between Sherborne Abbey and Sherborne Old Castle, Sherborne has enough going on in DT9 that most jobs read as properly local rather than a generic address on a form.

Whatever the Sherborne brief turns out to be, the same aircraft and the same fixed price agreed before the visit apply in DT9. It's the flight plan and camera settings that change, not the process.

Sherborne sits within North Dorset, Dorset, which is how we group the round internally as much as how the DT9 postcode reads on an envelope.

Because Sherborne sits inside DT9, it's grouped with the rest of North Dorset, which usually means Yeovil, Dorchester and Chard get covered on the same run out from Exeter rather than a separate visit.

The form on this site asks for a DT9 postcode, a job, and the dates in mind for Sherborne. That's all we need to check the diary and come back with a fixed price.

Once the Sherborne flying is done, the report follows within 48 hours, whether the job was in DT9 or anywhere else on the North Dorset round. Same written report, wherever it was flown.

Sherborne School and Pageant Gardens round out the local landmarks near Sherborne that make a DT9 address easy to place on a map before the drone is anywhere near it.