New Milton has one of the oldest age profiles on the coast and the housing to match: wide, low bungalows on good plots in Ashley, Bashley and towards Barton on Sea. Households at home all day use far more of their own solar, so systems here are often smaller than the roof allows and the money saved goes on a battery for the evening or an air conditioning unit for the summer.
Barton on Sea sits on an exposed cliff top. Wind loading is checked and the mounting is specified for it, as it is in Highcliffe and Milford. The town is inside the New Forest District but outside the National Park boundary, so standard permitted development applies to most houses.
Solar panels in New Milton are a bungalow job more often than not, and a bungalow roof is a gift: a long, shallow pitch with no dormers, usually clear of trees, that takes a full row of all-black panels and still looks tidy from the road. The survey works out how much of that roof you actually need. A household in all day often does best with a 3 kW system and no battery; a couple who are out, or who charge a car, get more from the full roof and an EcoFlow OCEAN 2 for the evening. Power here comes through SSEN, and the connection paperwork is handled for you as part of the install, which in BH25 is usually a single day with the scaffold down the morning after.