Solar Panel Installers in Chichester

Chichester is not a city where a one-size-fits-all solar install works. Inside the city-walls conservation area — and on the Georgian townhouses around the Pallants — the priority is a system that disappears into the roofline. Our standard specification here is all-black panels on a low-profile mounting system, sited on the rear roof slope wherever the layout allows, so the street-facing elevation stays untouched. It is the same honest kit underneath, just chosen and positioned so the planners, your neighbours and the view down the street are all kept happy.

Listed buildings are a separate layer. Properties near the Cathedral and across the older city centre are often listed, and a listed home usually needs Listed Building Consent before panels go on — even on a rear slope. The application goes to Chichester District Council, and we will tell you at survey, before anything is booked, whether your property is likely to need consent and how the all-black, low-profile, rear-slope design supports that application. For unlisted homes in the conservation area, the right design normally means panels can go ahead without drama.

There is a third authority to know about: homes in Lavant and the villages on the edge of the South Downs fall inside the National Park, where the South Downs National Park Authority — not the district council — is the planning body. The design logic is the same (discreet, all-black, sensitively sited), it is simply a different desk the paperwork sits on. On the grid side, Chichester's PO19 and PO20 postcodes sit on the UKPN network: smaller systems up to 3.68kW per phase are a simple G98 notification, while battery and export systems need G99 approval before installation — and we file all of that for you.

Away from the historic core, Chichester is straightforward solar country. The suburbs of Summersdale and Whyke, rural Fishbourne and coastal West Wittering are typically standard one-day installs, with no conservation constraints and good coastal-plain sunlight. We are an MCS-certified, family-run installer based 18 miles away in Portsmouth, so surveys and installs in Chichester are local work for us, not a trek — and every system, heritage-spec or standard, includes bird mesh as standard.