Electrician in Wembley

Much of Wembley went up between the wars, when the Metropolitan line turned farmland into Metro-land. By 1939 most of Wembley Park had been built over with suburban housing, and estates such as Sudbury Court, built between 1927 and 1936, and Barn Hill, bought by the builders Haymills in 1923, are now conservation areas. Sudbury Town station, Charles Holden's Grade II* listed design of 1931, is a good marker of the era. Brent says all of its residential conservation areas are covered by Article 4 directions, which remove some permitted development rights.

A house built in the 1930s may have been rewired once or twice since, or not at all. Loft conversions and kitchen extensions are often hung off circuits never designed for them, and black rubber-insulated cable, which Electrical Safety First says was phased out in the 1960s, can still turn up alongside rewireable fuse boxes with no RCD protection. An EICR is the honest way to find out what you've got.

The newer Wembley looks nothing like that. Quintain's development around the stadium has around 5,000 homes so far, with thousands more planned, and Alperton has more than 6,000 homes planned along the canal. New-build flats rarely need rewiring, but residents do want extra sockets, better lighting, data points and EV chargers in allocated bays. We also look after shops and businesses along the High Road and Ealing Road in Alperton.