Air conditioning in Cheshunt

Brookfield Riverside and the Delamare Road site

Cheshunt is changing quickly. Brookfield Riverside, a £500m scheme given planning permission in June 2023, is planned to bring about 250 homes, 100 assisted living units, up to 315,000 square feet of shops, 250,000 of leisure space and 160,000 of offices. A separate garden village nearby accounts for another 1,250 homes. On Delamare Road, the old Tesco head office site, which the company left for Welwyn Garden City in 2016, is being redeveloped as Cheshunt Lakeside.

If you are buying into any of these, read the lease or the covenants before planning an outdoor unit. Conditions on new developments can remove permitted development rights, and many flats need the freeholder's written consent.

Trading estates and data centres

Firms on the New River Trading Estate and the Dacre Industrial Estate often have an office or trade counter under a large roof, with a small comms cupboard running warm. Theobalds Business Park, close by, holds the Theobalds Enterprise Centre, and Google bought 33 acres at Waltham Cross in 2020 for an £800m data centre. Our work is at the small end of that scale: office air conditioning, or server room cooling for the cupboard.

Conservatories in glasshouse country

The Lea Valley once had about 1,200 acres under glass and still grows a large share of the UK's salad crop, so nobody here needs telling how quickly glass heats up. The same physics applies at home. A conservatory or a garden room has little to steady its temperature, which is why a reversible unit in a conservatory tends to be sized on the glazing and not just the floor area.

Conservation areas in the borough

Broxbourne Borough Council has six conservation areas, its 2018 leaflet naming Broxbourne, Broxbourne New River, Hoddesdon, Wormley and Churchgate among them. Inside one, the home rules keep an outdoor unit off road-facing walls and roofs, and back from the road behind the line of the house. Check your address with the council and read the planning guide.

What we can do in Cheshunt

All of these are available in Cheshunt. Choose one to read about it.

How a job runs

1. You tell us the problem

   Ring 01279 744503 or use the form, saying where you are and which rooms bother you.

2. We look at the building

   Measurements, wall, power and route come first. Then we pick a spot for the outdoor unit and send a written price.

3. We fit and test

   Units, lines and power go in. The pipework gets a pressure test before the system starts up for the first time.

4. You get the paperwork

   You learn the controls and keep the records. After that, a yearly service looks after it.