Buckinghamshire is our second county. From the yard at Enslow it is a straight run east on the A41 to Aylesbury, or up the A421 to Buckingham and Milton Keynes. We have been working that corridor since 2018.
Call 01869 254017 Request a site visitThis catches people out. Since April 2020 Buckinghamshire Council has been a single unitary authority covering what used to be Aylesbury Vale, Chiltern, South Bucks and Wycombe. Milton Keynes is not part of it — it is a separate unitary authority with its own highways team and its own process.
So a scaffold on a pavement in Aylesbury and a scaffold on a pavement in Bletchley are two different applications, to two different authorities, with two different lead times. Tell us at quotation stage if the structure is going anywhere near a public footpath and we will tell you which one you are dealing with.
Planned, modern and mostly post-1970. Grid roads, generous plot spacing and consistent construction make access straightforward, and the commercial and logistics stock around the estates is well suited to system scaffold.
A large volume of new housing alongside older market-town property. The usual constraint is an unfinished site or a shared driveway rather than the structure itself.
Older brick and stone in the town centre, farm and barn conversions outside it. Barn conversions often need ground-bearing solutions rather than ties.
Flint and brick, steeper ground, narrow lanes and a lot of protected landscape. Amersham, Gerrards Cross, Marlow and Beaconsfield are as much about access and appearance as they are about the scaffold.
Free site visit and quotation. CISRS-qualified scaffolders working to TG20 and SG4. RAMS and a job-specific toolbox talk before work starts. Statutory inspections at least every seven days while the scaffold is in use, and after anything that could affect its stability. Advanced CHAS accredited, and Oxfordshire Prestige Awards Scaffold Company of the Year four years running.
If any part of the scaffold stands on the footway, the verge or the carriageway, it needs a licence from Buckinghamshire Council before it goes up.
| Buckinghamshire Council | Fee |
|---|---|
| Scaffolding licence | £383.60 |
| Period covered | 28 days |
Figures correct at October 2026. Councils review fees annually — we confirm the current rate when we quote.
Buckinghamshire has been a unitary authority since 2020, replacing the old county and district arrangement. That is genuinely useful on site: the highway licence and the planning, conservation area or listed building consent all come from the same body, on one application. Over the border in Oxfordshire the licence is the county’s and the consent is a district’s — two organisations, two timescales, and a start date that depends on both.
Note that Milton Keynes is separate. It is its own unitary authority with its own fees, so a job in Bletchley or Newport Pagnell goes to Milton Keynes City Council rather than to Buckinghamshire.
Buckinghamshire charges one fee covering a 28-day period. Allow around two weeks between applying and the scaffold going up, and considerably longer where listed building consent is also needed.
A large part of the county sits inside the Chilterns National Landscape, the designation formerly called the Chilterns AONB. It does not stop work, but it tightens what is acceptable on visible elevations and can add conditions you would not get elsewhere. Worth knowing before a design is fixed rather than after.
Under the Work at Height Regulations 2005, a scaffold must be inspected by a competent person before first use, at intervals of no more than seven days thereafter, and again after anything that could have affected its stability — high winds, an impact, or any alteration. The inspection has to be recorded.
The part most customers do not realise: once the scaffold is handed over, the duty to arrange those seven-day inspections sits with the person using it, not with the scaffolding company. For a homeowner with a builder on site, in practice that is the builder. We do the handover inspection, we tag the scaffold, and we will carry out the weekly inspections as part of the hire if you want us to — but it needs agreeing rather than assuming. A tag is a supplementary check, not the statutory record.
Quotations vary far more than people expect for what looks like the same job. In roughly the order they matter:
If a quotation is materially cheaper than the others it is usually a shorter hire period, a lighter duty class, or no licence included. Worth checking which.
Tell us where the job is and we will come and look at it.
01869 254017 info@oxscaffold.co.ukOne county, two highway authorities. Buckinghamshire Council issues the footway licence for most of the county; Milton Keynes City Council issues it for Milton Keynes, Bletchley, Newport Pagnell and Wolverton. The fees, forms and lead times differ, and we apply to the right one.
We cover Buckinghamshire from one yard at Enslow, near Kidlington: Buckingham is thirty-five minutes, Aylesbury forty, Milton Keynes and Bletchley forty-five, High Wycombe fifty, and Beaconsfield, Gerrards Cross and Amersham an hour or more. That spread is why we are straightforward about what suits where — the far south is for jobs of some length, the north and the middle for anything. Scaffolding hire in Buckinghamshire is a hire period with erection and strike included and an honest extension cost if the job runs on.
The county has two highway authorities, and it matters. Buckinghamshire Council issues the footway licence for Aylesbury, Buckingham, High Wycombe, Wendover, Princes Risborough and the south; Milton Keynes City Council issues it for Milton Keynes, Bletchley, Newport Pagnell and Wolverton. Different forms, different fees, different lead times. We apply to the right one and build the lead time into the start date.
It depends where you are. Buckinghamshire Council covers most of the county — Aylesbury, Buckingham, High Wycombe, Wendover, Princes Risborough, Beaconsfield, Gerrards Cross and Amersham. Milton Keynes City Council covers Milton Keynes, Bletchley, Newport Pagnell and Wolverton. The forms, fees and lead times differ, and we apply to the right one as the scaffolding contractor.
All of it, with honesty about distance. Buckingham, Aylesbury, Milton Keynes and High Wycombe are routine. Beaconsfield, Gerrards Cross and Amersham are an hour or more from us, so we take jobs of some length there and will say so if a two-day job would be better served locally.
Yes — both have their own pages. The thing to know is that they sit under Milton Keynes City Council rather than Buckinghamshire Council, and that much of the 1970s housing is timber-framed or system-built, which changes how a scaffold is tied.
Yes. The industrial estates at Aylesbury, Cressex at High Wycombe and the Milton Keynes estates are portal frames and cladding, so freestanding or kentledged designs; the high streets and Old Towns in the south are occupied, listed and worked out of hours. See the commercial scaffolding page for how we price it.
Aylesbury, Buckingham, High Wycombe, Milton Keynes, Bletchley, Newport Pagnell, Wendover, Princes Risborough, Amersham, Gerrards Cross, Beaconsfield, and a South Buckinghamshire page covering Gerrards Cross, Amersham, the Chalfonts and Stoke Poges. Each one explains what is different about scaffolding there.
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