Garden lighting in Market Harborough
Low-voltage garden lighting in Market Harborough, 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
- Lias mudstone and clay; slow to drain
- 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 Market Harborough: 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.
Market Harborough has a historic core around the Square and the Old Grammar School, Victorian and Edwardian streets out to Little Bowden and Great Bowden, later estates around the edge, and the large Airfield Farm development near Lubenham.
We cover Market Harborough (LE16) and the villages around it, including Great Bowden, Little Bowden, Lubenham, Foxton, East Farndon, Kibworth, Husbands Bosworth and Medbourne.
Ground and conservation in Market Harborough
Market Harborough is on Jurassic mudstones and clays, which drain slowly, and the town sits where the River Welland meets the River Jordan. Water management decides most designs here, so we test the ground before choosing a soakaway or a permeable build-up. Cables run in ducts laid below the paving and planting, so we bring the lighting in as the patio or garden is built in Market Harborough wherever we can.
The Market Harborough conservation area covers the historic town core and was designated in 1969, with separate conservation areas at Great Bowden and Lubenham. An Article 4 direction served in 2020 on land at Queen's Street, Little Bowden, covers gates, fences and walls.
Sources: Market Harborough flood report, Sept 2024 · Market Harborough conservation area.
Permissions in Market Harborough
- 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 Market Harborough 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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