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Image Surveys Southport

Drone services - photography, video, inspections, survey grade mapping, 3D modelling, surveys, emergencies, counter drone security.

Commercial and heritage building inspections and land mapping

01/09/2026

Drone Inspections & Surveys -- Storm Season starts today!

Getting a proper look at a roof, parapet or high-level elevation has traditionally meant scaffolding, a MEWP or someone on a ladder. Each carries cost, disruption and working-at-height risk.
Image Surveys uses a CAA-authorised drone operation to capture high-resolution imagery of roofs and building envelopes at close range and safely, usually in a single site visit. Flying an RTK-equipped DJI Matrice 4E, we record slipped and missing slates, failed flashings, cracked render, blocked valleys, spalled brickwork and vegetation growth in enough detail for a surveyor, contractor or loss adjuster to work from.
What separates our work from a photo set is the report. Every inspection is written up: annotated images, defect locations, observations, and a clear record of what was seen on the day and what could not be accessed. That written record matters when the imagery will support a dilapidations schedule, a planned maintenance programme, an insurance claim or a dispute.
Covering Southport, Merseyside, West Lancashire and the wider North West.

24/08/2026

Aerial mapping for land, estates and golf courses
Large or awkward sites are slow to survey on foot. A drone covers the same ground far faster and produces a complete record rather than a scatter of spot readings.
Image Surveys flies planned photogrammetric missions over farmland, country estates, golf courses, woodland and development land, producing measured aerial plans, surface models, contours and 3D terrain data.
For agricultural and estate clients this supports drainage and levelling design, field and parcel area verification, monitoring of erosion and ditch condition, hedgerow and tree mapping, and evidence for grant applications. For golf courses it supports course master planning, irrigation and drainage design, bunker and green area calculation, and accurate as-built records before and after construction.
Flights are planned around airspace, tenants, livestock, wildlife and playing schedules, with operational paperwork completed in advance. Every survey is delivered with a written record of method, control and accuracy.
We cover Merseyside, Lancashire, Cheshire and the North Wales.

17/08/2026

Your mate has a drone and owes you a favour. Good call?

You've been appointed to manage a site or a block, you need a survey of the roof, and someone offers to pop over on Saturday and send the photos by teatime. Nothing off the budget. Sorted.

Until those images end up in a dilapidations schedule, an insurance claim, a defects negotiation or a build programme. Then three things start to matter.

1. The authorisation and insurance follow the flight, not good intentions
Most recreational pilots fly in the Open category, which keeps them well back from uninvolved people, occupied buildings and plant — exactly what you've got on a live site or a tenanted block. A CAA Operational Authorisation such as PDRA01 permits closer, more useful working under an assessed safety case, with documented risk assessment and site liaison behind it. Alongside that sits commercial public liability and professional indemnity cover that actually responds if something goes wrong. A hobby policy won't. Add ICO registration where imagery captures people or neighbouring property, and the picture's clear: if you instructed the flight, expect to be asked who checked. "He's done loads of them" isn't an answer the CAA or ICO will accept.

2. You're commissioning evidence, not photographs
Nice images don't settle disputes. RTK-corrected capture produces georeferenced, measurable deliverables — orthomosaics, elevations, 3D models — where a defect can be located and sized, not just pointed at. Flight logs, metadata and a repeatable methodology mean the record still stands when a contractor, a loss adjuster or the other side's expert starts pulling at it.

3. One properly planned visit costs less than three improvised ones
A specialist arrives knowing the coverage, overlap and altitudes the deliverable requires, works around access constraints, and captures everything in a single mobilisation. The alternative is a return visit once someone notices the parapet detail is missing — usually at the point in the programme where neither delay nor cost is welcome.

The favour is free. The rework, the argument and the uninsured claim aren't. And you might lose a mate.

Image Surveys Limited — CAA-authorised drone survey and aerial mapping across the North West.
imagesurveys.com | 0800 999 1295

11/08/2026

Today’s office — a small hidden valley with complete silence

10/08/2026

Dated, survey-grade evidence can be crucial if you suffer damage to your property . When you make a claim, can you prove what your property looked like BEFORE the damage? insurance companies cover damage from an event like a storm and not wear and tear.
Here's a problem many businesses only discover too late: commercial insurers don't just want evidence of the damage — they want evidence of the prior condition. Was that roof already worn? Was that crack pre-existing? Without a documented baseline, claims get delayed, reduced or disputed — and the burden of proof falls on you.
A scheduled drone condition survey solves it. We create a clear, dated, high-resolution record of your building, roof or site before anything goes wrong. So if you ever need to claim after a storm, fire or flood, you can demonstrate exactly what changed — and settle faster, with less argument.
For property managers, facilities teams and commercial landlords, it's simple risk management: a small investment now that protects a potentially large claim later.
We are CAA-licensed & fully insured and our work is Ideal for annual condition records and policy renewals
Protect your business — arrange a baseline survey:

06/08/2026

We're pleased to share that Image Surveys is now a verified member of Drone Pilots UK — the national directory of commercial drone operators whose CAA credentials and insurance have been independently checked.
It's a simple thing, but a useful one. Anyone can put up a website and call themselves a drone surveyor. Verification means someone other than us has looked at the paperwork.
We fly a DJI Matrice 4E for aerial mapping, photogrammetry, façade surveys and structural inspection across Merseyside, Lancashire, Greater Manchester and Cheshire — for farms, estates, historic buildings, housing stock and insurance claims.
If you've got a site, a roof, a building or a field you need surveying properly, we'd be glad to hear from you.
📍 Based in Southport | 🌐 imagesurveys.com

05/08/2026

Do you own or run a public venue with ability to have over 200 people in the building or grounds at one time? If so you need to be aware of some legislation known as "Martyn's Law" and start planning. Find out more here on how it works, what is involved and on how we can potentially help with planning and information gathering. https://www.imagesurveys.com/get/heritagemark-martyn-law

04/08/2026

When I started Image Surveys, I noticed that most information about commercial drones was written for the people flying them — not the people paying for them.

So I wrote something different. A guide aimed at business owners, surveyors, facilities managers and anyone else who needs drone survey data but isn’t sure where to start.

It covers everything from UK drone law to what format your data comes in. Free to download, and if you’d like to talk through a specific project afterwards, you can book a free 20-minute call on the same page.

https://www.imagesurveys.com/get/drone-guide-british-business

03/08/2026

Two bills you can avoid

1.When you take on a lease

Most commercial leases are full repairing and insuring. In plain terms: when you hand the premises back, you're liable to return them in at least as good a condition as you found them — and if the roof was already tired when you moved in, that's now your problem to prove.

At the end of the term the landlord's surveyor serves a schedule of dilapidations. Every defect on it is assumed to be yours unless you can show otherwise. For a small business, that bill can run well into five figures for wear that was there before you had the keys.

A dated photographic record of condition, taken at the start of the lease, is what stops that conversation before it starts. The roof, the elevations, the gutters, the flat sections nobody can see from the ground — captured properly, timestamped, and filed.

The issue is often the roof. It is not easy to access and so is often missed and that is the sucker punch as it is often the most expensive part to repair and maintain. A drone survey from an independent specialist can stop any arguments as to condition stone dead.

2. When you make an insurance claim

The same principle catches people out after a storm. Insurers don't only want evidence of the damage. They want to know what the building looked like beforehand. Was that slate already slipped? Was that crack there last year? Wear and tear ( damage over time ) is usually excluded so how can you prove the storm did the damage your now claiming?

Without a baseline, the burden of proof sits with you, and claims get delayed, reduced or argued down. With one, you can show exactly what changed and when. A simple dated , independent drone report will satisfy most insurers the roof was in good condition especially if repeated say annually during teh lease and it costs only a few pounds compared to an uninsured repair of a full roof!

Do not wait call us today !

27/07/2026

Checkout our new website and branding at www.imagesurveys.com

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Office 3, Heritage House
Southport
PR90TE

Opening Hours

Monday	7am - 5:30pm
Tuesday	7am - 5:30pm
Wednesday	7am - 5:30pm
Thursday	7am - 5:30pm
Friday	7am - 5:30pm
Saturday	8am - 1pm

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