Air conditioning in
Camden

The housing stock in Camden, and what it means for the job

Camden is the hardest borough in our patch and it is worth being straight about why. Conservation area coverage is very high, a large share of the stock is listed or in a listed terrace, and most of the residential property is flats within period buildings rather than whole houses. That combination means the two questions that decide a Camden job are the freeholder and the appearance from the street, and the technical work is the easy part. Where it does work well is in the rear of Kentish Town and Gospel Oak terraces, in the mews properties, and in the newer blocks around King's Cross where the building was designed with plant positions in mind.

The typical Camden installation

A typical Camden job is a single unit in a bedroom of a flat in a converted period house, with the outdoor unit at the rear, and a full licence pack prepared for the freeholder before we quote a date.

How far we are from Camden, and what we have finished nearby

Our own address is N14 5RH, which is 5.8 miles from the middle of Camden in a straight line. A drive is longer than that and depends on the hour, so twenty five to forty minutes from N14. Parking needs to be arranged in advance for most Camden addresses.

The three jobs of ours closest to Camden, with the distance from the borough rather than from us, because that is the number that says whether we know the area:

• Camden NW1, heat pump: 1.1 miles from Camden. Samsung monobloc air source heat pump.
• Finsbury Park N4, heat pump, solar and battery: 2.6 miles from Camden. Vaillant air source heat pump with solar panels and a battery.
• Islington N1, heat pump: 2.7 miles from Camden. Vaillant aroTHERM plus 7 kW air source heat pump.

What it costs here

Every figure on this site is an estimate built from the quotations we issued in 2026 and our own installation experience. It is not a quotation. The price you are given after the free survey is the price you pay.

Permission in Camden

Conservation area coverage in Camden is high, so the first check on any address here is whether the street sits inside one. Inside a conservation area you keep permitted development rights, but the outdoor unit cannot go on a wall or roof slope fronting a highway, which in practice means the rear. Where the property is a flat, planning permission is needed regardless of any of that. Your street, any Article 4 direction and the listed building register are the first three things we check, and the answer is in writing before you pay anything.

What the housing in Camden means for permission

Camden is a borough of flats: 87 per cent of homes, against 13 per cent houses. 56 per cent of all homes here are in purpose-built blocks, which in practice means a managing agent, a licence for alterations and a consent pack before anybody talks about dates. Nothing about that is unusual and none of it is quick. If you own a house here you are in the 13 per cent, and your job is the straightforward kind. The most common home in Camden is a flat in a purpose-built block, 56 per cent, which usually means a managing agent, a licence for alterations and a plant position the building decides. Of the 21 boroughs we cover north of the Thames, Camden has the fourth lowest share of houses.

Shares of the 92,759 households counted in Camden at the 2021 Census, table TS044, rounded. Percentages do not total 100 because homes in commercial buildings and temporary structures are counted separately.