Southwark Council has a very large property estate. It regularly buys in surveys.

Sometimes this can be really expensive with scaffolding installed to give safe external survey access or abseiling engineers. This is hugely expensive.

Wouldn’t it be useful to have a high definition camera up close so a surveyor doesn’t need scaffolding and to get much quicker results.

Such a system has been created and is being used – month drone.

And talking to a survey supplier I’ve used professionally the system is already in use in the UK.

I’ve suggested this method to the Cabinet Member for Housing at Southwark. He told me not to hold my breath.