Garden lighting in Corby
Low-voltage garden lighting in Corby, designed as one scheme and installed with the electrics certified.
A path, step and border lighting scheme typically costs up to about £1,500 installed, and a full multi-zone garden scheme £2,000–£6,000 or more. A new outdoor circuit is priced separately. Garden lighting does not need planning permission, but a new outdoor mains circuit is notifiable electrical work, so it is done and certified by a registered electrician.
- Full garden scheme
- £2,000–£6,000+
- Planning
- Not needed
- Ground
- Ironstone, with clay and restored ground
- Guarantee
- 5 years, in writing
Our 2026 guide prices, all in. Your fixed price comes in writing after the site visit. Council fees checked October 2026.
Garden lighting in Corby: what is involved
We design and install low-voltage garden lighting: step and riser lights, uplighters on trees and walls, and soft light around seating, with the ducts laid as the patio is built and the electrics certified.
Corby grew as a steel town: a New Town designated in 1950, with estates such as Kingswood, Lodge Park, Beanfield and Danesholme built for steelworkers, around the older villages of Corby Village, Great Oakley and Weldon. Priors Hall Park in the north east is planned for more than 5,000 homes, and many of its gardens are handed over as bare, compacted plots.
We cover Corby (NN17 and NN18) and the villages around it, including Weldon, Great Oakley, Corby Village, Gretton, Cottingham, Middleton, Rockingham, Stanion and East Carlton.
Ground and conservation in Corby
Corby sits on the Northampton Sand ironstone that fed the steelworks, and large areas around the town were opencast quarried and restored. Ground can change from natural ironstone to clay or fill within a garden, so we dig before we design the base and drainage. Cables run in ducts laid below the paving and planting, so we bring the lighting in as the patio or garden is built in Corby wherever we can.
Corby has nine conservation areas, including the Old Village, Cottingham and Middleton, Gretton, Rockingham, Stanion, Great Oakley and Weldon. Its only Article 4 direction (Kingswood) controls houses in multiple occupation and does not affect driveways, porches or extensions.
Sources: North Northamptonshire conservation areas · Priors Hall Park.
Permissions in Corby
- PlanningGarden lighting does not need planning permission, but a new outdoor mains circuit is notifiable electrical work, so it is done and certified by a registered electrician. Keep lights pointing down and away from neighbours' windows. Listed buildings and the Corby conservation area have tighter rules, so we check your address before anything is designed.
- Design and priceWe measure up, check the ground and the planning position, and give you one fixed written price.
Rules checked October 2026.
What you get
- Low-voltage fittings that are cheap to run and safe in the garden
- Ducts laid with the patio so cables never sit under slabs
- Step, wall, tree and seating lights designed as one scheme
- Timers, sensors or app control
The specification
- Lighting plan agreed
- Ducts and junction boxes laid with the sub-base
- Transformers and fittings installed
- Circuit installed and certified by a registered electrician
- Scheme tested at dusk and adjusted
- Five year workmanship guarantee in writing
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Garden lighting in Corby: questions
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We measure up, check levels and drainage, and send a written proposal with the build-up, the programme and one whole price. No pressure and no follow-up sales calls.