EV charger installation in Market Harborough, from the Georgian core to the edge estates
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Two Market Harboroughs, two kinds of job
What decides your install here isn't the car, it's where you can park and how far that is from your fuse board. And on that, the town splits cleanly into three sorts of home.
The edge estates
The newer streets on the edge of town are the easy case. There's a driveway right by the house and a modern consumer unit, so the run is short and the fit is clean. Because these are owned homes with their own drive, the grant generally won't apply, so what you see quoted is what you pay.
The inter-war and post-war homes
The 1930s semis out towards Great Bowden and the post-war homes around Welland Park usually keep a drive or garage close to the board, so the cable run stays short. The one thing we check on the older ones is whether the consumer unit needs bringing up to standard first, and we flag that before we quote.
The conservation-area core
Around St Dionysius, the High Street and the Victorian terraces off Coventry Road, the homes front straight onto the street with little or no off-street parking. Here the first job is a safe route to the car, which usually means a cross-pavement channel where the council allows one, done tidily on a period frontage.
What it costs, and whether the grant helps you
The two questions we get on almost every Market Harborough job are what it costs and whether the grant helps. Both have the same national answer wherever you live, so rather than half-tell it here, we point you to the pages that lay it out in full.
The price of a home charger, and what pushes it up, is the same in Market Harborough as anywhere, so we've set it all out on one page: what a home charger costs and which homes the grant covers. The short local version is this: the edge estates land at the straightforward end, and the older conservation-area homes are where a longer cable run or a cross-pavement channel can add to the job. The grant is the mirror image, it more often helps the town-centre flats and rented terraces than the drive-owning estates.
Almost every electric car uses the same plug, so there's no guesswork about the unit, here's why Type 2 is the UK standard. A charger is a permanent piece of wiring, so a qualified electrician has to fit it and sign it off, it's not a DIY job. And if you've got, or are planning, solar panels, we can set the charger to draw from your spare daytime power, which suits a home that sits empty while everyone's at work.
From the town centre out to rural Harborough
We fit chargers on both sides of the town, and out past the edge into the villages, where a driveway and a bit of room usually make for an easy 7kW fit.
Out in the villages of rural Harborough, public chargers are thinner on the ground, so charging at home matters more, not less, and the driveways out there make it simple. We fit the same way north to Kibworth and south-west to Lutterworth, and you can see the whole patch on our areas we cover page. For the full detail on chargers, read our EV charger installation page.
Common questions
- Our house is in the conservation area with no driveway. Can we still charge at home?
- Usually, yes, but it needs more thought than an estate job. The period homes in the middle of Market Harborough front straight onto the street, so there's often no drive to park on. That means finding a safe way to get power from the house to the car without a cable trailing across the pavement. Where the council allows it, a cross-pavement channel set into the footway is the normal answer. We come and look at the frontage and where you actually park before we say what will work, because a listed or conservation-area front needs a careful, tidy fit.
- We're on one of the newer estates on the edge of town. Is it a simple job?
- Usually one of the simplest around. The modern estates on the edge of town have a driveway right by the house and a modern consumer unit already fitted, so the charger goes on the wall with a short cable run and nothing to bring up to standard first. The inter-war semis out towards Great Bowden and the post-war homes near Welland Park are much the same, with a drive or garage close to the board.
- Is the grant more likely to help in the town centre than on the estates?
- Yes, that's the pattern here. If you own a house with your own drive, which covers most of the edge estates, the grant generally isn't for you. The homes that more often qualify are the flats and rented terraces in the conservation-area core and off Coventry Road, where people park on the street. So the town centre is where it's worth checking properly. We'll tell you which side of that line your home sits on before you commit to anything.
More questions? See our common questions.