Electrician in Pinner

Electricians in Pinner: what is different here

Aerials, dishes and outside lights on the Pinnerwood Park estate

Since 10 June 1991 a satellite dish or antenna anywhere on the Pinnerwood Park estate has needed planning permission, because of an Article 4 direction reaching every road from Albury Drive to Woodhall Gate. The same direction makes most alterations to the front of houses in the core roads, among them Evelyn Drive, Bede Close, Old South Close and Marsworth Avenue, a planning matter. In practice that means we look at where a new external light, a doorbell camera on its own cable, a meter-box change or an outdoor socket will sit before fitting it.

The Pinner Hill Estate has had a direction of its own since July 1990, and it also takes in satellite antennas, along with gates, fences, walls and hard surfaces, so a dish on South View Road or Park View Road needs the same check. On a side or rear wall, out of sight from the road, there is normally no issue. On the front elevation, ask Harrow's conservation officers before anything is fixed. The estate's appraisal favours keeping original details, so we run cables internally wherever we can rather than clipping them across the front.

Wiring a listed timber-framed building

The High Street conservation area contains a run of listed buildings, from the Queen's Head, an inn since 1635, to the 15th-century Wealden hall house at 25 to 27 High Street, and Waxwell Lane has its own listed cottages. Listed building consent from Harrow covers interior work as well as exterior work wherever the special interest is affected. Chasing cables into old plaster, cutting notches in historic timbers or fitting surface trunking across exposed framing can all fall into that.

On these buildings we start with an inspection, then propose routes that use existing voids, skirtings and later partitions. If consent is needed, you hear that from us before any work begins. Many of these buildings are now shops with a flat above, with separate supplies and meters; we confirm which board feeds which part before isolating anything.

Garden offices, outbuildings and long cable runs

Pinner ward is 29.1% detached houses and Hatch End ward 34.2%, so long gardens with a studio, gym or workshop at the end are common. The supply to an outbuilding needs the right cable size for the distance and the load, suitable protection at the house end, and a decision on how the outbuilding is earthed. It also has to be buried or fixed so that it will not be dug through later.

This is notifiable work, so we issue an Electrical Installation Certificate and notify it to Building Control through our competent person scheme. Tell us the distance from the house and what will be plugged in at the far end, such as heaters or a hot tub, because that decides the cable.

EV charger supplies near listed buildings

A wall-mounted charge point in a lawful off-street parking space is normally permitted development. The national rules exclude one case that matters in Pinner: the permission is lost inside the curtilage of a listed building. So for a listed house on the High Street, Church Lane or Waxwell Lane, a charge point on the wall or the drive needs a planning check first.

In the Pinnerwood Park core area, paving a front garden for parking also needs permission, which can decide whether a charger is possible at all. Where it is allowed, we fit the supply and its protection and check the earthing arrangement. A few charger makers send their own engineer to commission the unit, and we check whether yours does.

EICRs and remedial work for Pinner landlords

Because no Pinner ward is in Harrow's selective licensing scheme, most HA5 lets answer only to the 2020 Electrical Safety Standards Regulations: a fresh inspection no more than five years after the last, a copy of the report in the tenant's hands within 28 days, and remedial work finished inside 28 days or any shorter period the report sets. Once it is done, the tenant and Harrow Council each get written confirmation. For an Eastcote address on the Hillingdon side of the boundary, that confirmation goes to Hillingdon Council instead. A licensed HMO adds one more duty: a declaration to the council, when it asks, that the appliances you supply are safe.

If another firm carried out the inspection, forward its report and you get a price for each coded item. Since Amendment 4 to BS 7671, the IET's guidance is that an FI code by itself does not make the report unsatisfactory, and the form now says further investigation is advised, where it used to say required without delay. Where a report does require further investigation, regulation 3 gives you the same 28 days as for remedial work, or less if the report says so.

Official sources

• Harrow Council: Pinnerwood Park Estate Article 4 direction guidance note
• Harrow Council: Pinner Hill Estate conservation area schedule and Article 4 direction
• Harrow Council: Pinner High Street conservation area appraisal and management strategy
• legislation.gov.uk: General Permitted Development Order 2015, Schedule 2, Part 2 (including EV outlets)
• legislation.gov.uk: Electrical Safety Standards Regulations 2020, regulation 3
• IET Wiring Matters, July 2026: further investigation (FI) codes under BS 7671:2018+A4:2026
• ONS Census 2021 via Nomis: accommodation type (TS044), Pinner, Pinner South and Hatch End wards and Harrow

Last reviewed October 2026 by EliteShires Property Services.