Air conditioning in Haringey

Houses in the west, a mix in the east

In the 2021 Census, 38.9 per cent of Haringey households lived in a whole house, most of them terraced. Another 22.8 per cent lived in a flat or bedsit in a converted house, and 35.4 per cent in a purpose-built block of flats. A quarter rent from the council or a housing association.

That gives us three common jobs. In a whole Victorian or Edwardian house in Muswell Hill, Crouch End or Bounds Green, the outdoor unit goes at the back, and a multi-split can cool two or three bedrooms from one unit. In a converted flat on the Harringay Ladder or in Stroud Green, the freeholder's consent and the route to the back wall come first. On council-built estates and in the newer blocks around Tottenham Hale and Wood Green, the outdoor unit usually goes on a balcony, with the landlord's or managing agent's agreement.

How an install works in a Haringey house

1. 1

   Survey

   We look at the rooms and the pipe route, and check conservation area, Article 4 and listed status.

2. 2

   Siting

   We pick an outdoor position at the rear, usually on the ground or the back-addition wall, and check it against the 37 dB(A) noise limit at neighbours' windows.

3. 3

   Consents

   If planning permission or freeholder consent is needed, we give you the drawings, unit size and sound data to apply.

4. 4

   Fitting

   Most single rooms are fitted in a day, with the pipe usually going straight through the wall behind the indoor unit.

5. 5

   Handover

   We commission the system, record the refrigerant and show you the controls.

Planning in Haringey

Planning questions go to Haringey Council. Its adopted Local Plan is made up of four 2017 documents: the Strategic Policies, Development Management Policies, Site Allocations and the Tottenham Area Action Plan. The council is preparing a single new Local Plan to replace all four, and consulted on a draft in late 2025.

For a house that isn't listed, a heating-capable unit can often go in without planning permission under Class G of the national rules, as rewritten from 29 May 2025, if it meets the size, position and noise limits. A cooling-only unit can't. For flats, the rules allow one heat pump per block with an outdoor unit no bigger than 0.6 m³. If the building already has one, you need planning permission, and the freeholder's written consent is needed either way.

Conservation areas and Article 4 estates

Haringey Council lists 28 conservation areas. In a conservation area, no unit can go on a wall or roof facing a road without planning permission, so we look at the rear first.

Four of them have Article 4 directions removing permitted development rights for changes such as new windows and doors: Noel Park, Peabody Cottages, the Rookfield Estate and Tower Gardens. The council also uses Article 4 directions to control new shared houses across most of the east of the borough, and conversions of warehouses to homes in its employment areas. Check your address on the council's map before planning a unit.

• Highgate, Muswell Hill, Fortis Green and the Rookfield Estate
• Crouch End, Stroud Green, Hornsey High Street and Clyde Circus
• Alexandra Palace and Park, Bowes Park and Wood Green Common
• Noel Park, Campsbourne, Hillfield and Trinity Gardens
• North Tottenham, Scotland Green, Bruce Grove, Tottenham Green and Seven Sisters/Page Green
• Bruce Castle and All Hallows, Tower Gardens, Lordship Lane and Peabody Cottages

Shops, restaurants and offices

We fit wall units and ceiling cassettes for restaurants and cafés on Green Lanes, shops on Wood Green High Road, and businesses on the Broadways in Crouch End and Muswell Hill and along Tottenham High Road, and we service and repair existing systems in business hours.

Tottenham High Road runs through five conservation areas that the council groups as a historic corridor, and Crouch End and Muswell Hill are conservation areas too. A new outdoor unit for a shop or restaurant there usually needs planning permission, so we plan its position and sound data early.

Parking and access for engineers

Where a street has controlled parking, the van uses a paid bay or a suspended one. Haringey asks for applications at least two weeks before the suspension starts. It charges £80 per car space per day plus a £280 administration fee, and each road needs its own application. If your job needs one, we apply and show the fee on your quote.

Haringey is outside the Congestion Charge zone. The ULEZ covers all of London.

Prices in Haringey

Our standard prices. Home prices include VAT and business prices are plus VAT. Planning drawings, long pipe runs and access equipment are quoted after the survey.

• A bedroom or study

  2.5 kW wall unit, 5 m pipe, fitted in a day

  from£1,850inc. VAT

• A living room

  3.5 kW wall unit

  from£2,050inc. VAT

• Two rooms, one outdoor unit

  Multi-split

  from£3,650inc. VAT

• Three rooms

  Multi-split

  from£5,100inc. VAT

• Commercial wall unit

  Fitted in business hours

  from£1,795+ VAT

• An annual service

  Keeps the manufacturer warranty valid

  from£119inc. VAT

Neighbourhoods we cover

We work across the borough, including the N4, N6, N8, N10, N15, N17 and N22 postcodes:

• Highgate, Muswell Hill and Fortis Green
• Crouch End and Hornsey
• Stroud Green, Harringay and Finsbury Park
• Wood Green, Noel Park, Bounds Green and Alexandra Palace
• Tottenham, Bruce Grove and Northumberland Park
• Seven Sisters, South Tottenham and Tottenham Hale

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