Ringwood itself sits just outside the New Forest National Park, with a mix of older cottages near the market place, 1930s houses along the Christchurch Road and modern estates to the north. Ashley Heath and St Leonards are larger detached houses in woodland plots, where shading from mature trees is the first thing the survey looks at and where back-contact panels, which lose far less output in partial shade, are worth their place.
Burley, Picket Post and the villages east of the A31 are inside the National Park, where the planning authority is the National Park itself rather than New Forest District Council. Roof-mounted solar is still usually permitted, but the rules differ and we check them before quoting.