Once you have ordered your canopy, our drawing team will draw and issue final construction drawings for your approval. This process usually takes two weeks. The lead-in times for your canopy install start once we receive approval of the drawings we send to you.

Steel canopies have a lead-in time of 4-6 weeks.

Timber canopies have a lead-in time of 6-8 weeks.

Please note that these timescales are indicative and can be longer for installations during school holidays – if you are working to a particular deadline, call us to discuss your individual requirements.

From initial enquiry, we endeavour to call you back within three working days and have a quotation to you within one week. Please note that these timescales are indicative – if you are working to a particular deadline, we will endeavour to meet your individual requirements.

Dependent upon size, our pre-engineered kit-of-parts canopies take as little as one day to install, excluding groundworks.

Your satisfaction with your Fordingbridge experience is paramount to our success. To enable you to visualise our proposal for your project and if you are presenting our proposals to your colleagues, we can offer you a free artists impression of your canopy. If we are unable to produce a visualisation in the timescale required, we will provide a selection of images of similar canopies which will help you and others visualise our proposal.

Fordingbridge structures cover the country. View the location box on our homepage search installations local to you.

Planning regulations vary across the country, however as a guide, all canopies (not just ours) that will stay up for more than 28 days will require planning permission. Ultimately the decision lies with your local planning authority, and we can make an enquiry on your behalf if you wish. Pre-planning advice can also be sought from a ‘Self Help Surveyor’ at your Local Authority to discuss things further.

If your project does require permission, Fordingbridge are pleased to offer a full planning application service to you, at cost. Planning can take up to 12 weeks to gain approval so do ensure that you leave plenty of time before you want your canopy installed, to investigate this requirement and make an application if necessary.

Alternatively if you would like to handle the planning application yourself, we can supply a drawing of the proposed canopy together with a site plan and block plan to go with your application.

Fordingbridge take pride in pioneering a ‘kit of parts’ construction method. This allows fast and tidy installation on site and minimal disruption to the everyday workings of your site. In this respect, whilst many schools prefer work to take place outside of term-time, we are able to work in term-time and at weekends, whatever the time of year. All of our installers are DBS checked and our in-house health and safety management coordinates our works with your site to ensure safety and customer satisfaction are our top priority.

Fordingbridge place the safety and wellbeing of our customers at the centre of our work. To ensure complete customer satisfaction, all of our team are DBS (previously CRB) checked.

We are happy to carry out the groundworks for your canopy, making the project fully turnkey, giving you peace of mind that everything is under control.

If a separate contractor is appointed to carry out the groundworks, we will design foundations to suit the structural requirements of our canopy and will provide a ground plan for the setting out of the foundations.

Fordingbridge canopies are constructed such that they can be extended, although it is useful if we are aware of future plans at the design stage. This is ideal if you don’t have the finances for a larger canopy at one time. An example is available to view here.