Garden lighting in Kettering
Low-voltage garden lighting in Kettering, 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 and clay; compacted new-build plots
- 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 Kettering: 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.
Kettering has Victorian and Edwardian terraces and villas close to the centre and along the Headlands, interwar and post-war estates, Barton Seagrave to the south east, and Hanwood Park on the east side, planned for up to 5,500 homes.
We cover Kettering (NN15 and NN16) and the villages around it, including Barton Seagrave, Burton Latimer, Geddington, Broughton, Cransley, Pytchley, Rothwell, Desborough and Mawsley.
Ground and conservation in Kettering
Ground around Kettering ranges from ironstone to clay, and new-build plots are often compacted subsoil under a thin layer of topsoil. We check what is under each garden before choosing the base and the 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 Kettering wherever we can.
Kettering has 26 conservation areas, including the town centre, Barton Seagrave, Burton Latimer, Geddington and Rothwell. Its Article 4 directions are site-specific, mostly older ones covering individual streets or buildings, so we check your address before designing anything that faces the road.
Sources: North Northamptonshire Article 4 directions · Hanwood Park.
Permissions in Kettering
- 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 Kettering 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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