New-build roofing across a 19-plot housing development at Hay Lane, Spennymoor.

The brief from Oaktree Living.

Hay Lane is a 19-plot residential scheme in Spennymoor, County Durham, comprising a mix of bungalows and two-storey semi-detached homes. Oaktree Living required a roofing subcontractor who could mobilise across the plot run, work cleanly inside a live housebuilding programme and hand over weather-tight roofs ready for follow-on trades.

The contract scope covered pitched tiled roof coverings, eaves, verge and ridge detailing, and the roof-level interfaces required around integrated solar PV. Evenii was engaged as the specialist roofing contractor on the scheme and worked to the developer-led programme from first plot to plot 19.

A housing development run as a sequenced programme.

New-build housing roofing is not a single roof job repeated 19 times. It is a programme. Plots release in sequence, scaffolding moves in waves, and the roofing contractor either keeps the developer ahead of weather-tight milestones or holds the whole site up.

Evenii planned attendance against the Oaktree Living release schedule. Materials were called off in batches matched to plot readiness, gangs were sized to the live working face, and completed plots were signed over so that internal trades could follow on without waiting for adjacent roofs to close in.

That programme discipline is the same approach Evenii applies for the housing developers and main contractors who procure new-build roofing across County Durham, Tyne and Wear and Teesside.

Roof specification across bungalows and semis.

The development mixed single-storey bungalow roofs with two-storey semi-detached pitched roofs. Each house type carried its own setting-out, batten gauge and detail run, and the roofing specification was held consistent across the plot mix so that the street elevation read as a single coordinated scheme.

Eaves, verges and ridges were detailed to the developer specification. Where plots carried integrated solar PV, Evenii coordinated the tile cut-around, flashing and weathering details so the array sat correctly inside the roof plane rather than being added on top of a finished roof as an afterthought.

All work was completed by directly managed roofing operatives working to Evenii site rules, with CHAS Advanced and NFRC accreditations carried through into the developer compliance file.

Clean site, controlled programme.

Hay Lane was delivered on a clean, well-managed site. Working-at-height was planned around the scaffold release sequence, material drops were coordinated with the site manager, and finished plots were left tidy so that internal trades could move in straight behind the roofing gang.

Day-to-day delivery was run by an Evenii site lead reporting into the Oaktree Living team. Sequencing decisions, weather-day calls and material call-offs were handled inside the site management structure rather than escalated, which is how a multi-plot housing roofing contract should run.