CT1 · Canterbury area
The medieval city inside the walls, from Westgate to Northgate, along Palace Street and the King's Mile up to the Cathedral. Listed Tudor and Georgian stock dominates the intra-mural streets, with the Cathedral precincts and the Northgate conservation area carrying the tightest LBC controls in the city.
Work inside the walls is defined by two things: the age of the wiring you find behind the wall, and the LBC (Listed Building Consent) requirements on anything that changes the character of a listed elevation. On a typical intra-mural property the sequence is a full EICR to see what is actually there, a consumer unit upgrade (almost every intra-mural board flags C2 on EICR), and either a rewire or a partial rewire scoped around the LBC-approved cable routes.
Cable routing on lath-and-plaster walls is careful conduit work - no chase-cuts into the listed skim, and no penetrations of listed skirting or panelling without consent. Surface-mount metal conduit in a colour matched to the wall is the standard approach where LBC allows it. On listed ceilings, downlight cuts need LBC in advance.
Canterbury City Council conservation team runs the LBC process. On straightforward intra-mural electrical work - one new circuit, a surface conduit run on an internal wall - the consent turnaround is typically 6 to 8 weeks. Larger schemes take longer.
Send a postcode and a couple of photos to hello@canterburyelectrical.co.uk or call 07763 100 477. Same-day reply on straightforward jobs.