Air conditioning in Hornchurch

Which parts of Hornchurch are conservation areas?

Three in all: two neighbouring areas by the High Street, both designated in 2010, and RAF Hornchurch on the old airfield, which is covered further down. St Andrew's takes in the parish church, listed at Grade I in January 1955 and of 13th-century origin, with a horned bull's head at the east end of its roof, a reminder that the town takes its name from the horned church; when the horns were repaired in 1824 they turned out to be copper. Next to it, Langtons centres on Langtons House, from the mid-18th century, whose house and grounds were given to Hornchurch in 1929, with gardens laid out with Humphry Repton; the Queen's Theatre of the 1970s is listed there too. Havering's draft management plan for Langtons, published for consultation in March 2026, asks for new external equipment to go on rear or other less visible walls. Neither area has an Article 4 direction. Sources: St Andrew's appraisal; British Listed Buildings; Parish of Hornchurch; Langtons draft plan; Wikipedia on Hornchurch; Havering Council.

What makes Emerson Park different?

Big plots and its own planning guidance. Emerson Park is not a conservation area, but Havering adopted a Policy Area document for it in February 2009, describing detached family houses in spacious grounds, asking for the gaps between houses to suit the street, and in one of its sectors setting a minimum of one metre to the side boundary at ground floor and two metres above. At the 2021 Census, Emerson Park ward had the highest share of detached houses in Havering, 48.8%, and the highest share of owner-occupiers, 87.5%, with only 8.3% renting privately. Because a detached house is allowed two outdoor units without applying, there is plenty of room to keep both out of sight from the road, or to run a multi-split to several rooms from one. Sources: Emerson Park Policy Area guidance; Area Insights, Emerson Park; Planning Portal.

What about Elm Park and the old airfield?

They are interwar and postwar Hornchurch. The town's population grew by 335% between 1921 and 1938. The Royal Flying Corps opened Sutton's Farm in October 1915; it became RAF Hornchurch in April 1928, played a key part in the Battle of Britain and closed in July 1962, after which it was built over as the Airfield Estate. The RAF Hornchurch conservation area was designated on 7 June 1989; according to Havering's March 2026 draft plan it has no listed buildings and no Article 4 direction. At Elm Park, Richard Costain and Sons started building in 1934 and helped pay for the station that opened in 1935, by which time about 500 homes were complete.

Semis are the usual Hornchurch house: 52.1% of households in St Andrew's ward. That ward also has the highest share in Havering of flats above shops and other commercial buildings, 3.0%, and a flat over a shop does not get the permitted development allowance for an outdoor unit. No Hornchurch ward is in Havering's selective licensing scheme, although licensing of smaller shared houses covers the whole borough. Our air conditioning in Ilford page has the wider picture. Sources: Wikipedia; RAF Hornchurch draft plan; Hidden London; Area Insights, St Andrew's; Planning Portal; Havering Council, licensing.

Services we offer in Hornchurch

All ten services below are available in Hornchurch. Each card opens a page on what the work involves.

What happens after you get in touch?

1. A short call about the building

   Phone 020 8176 6154 or send the form. We ask what kind of property it is, which rooms you want cooler or warmer, and whether you own the wall the pipes would pass through, so the visit covers what matters.

2. A visit, measurements and a written quote

   At the property we size the room, find a spot for the outdoor unit, work out the sound level at the closest neighbouring window and check that the fuse board can take a new circuit. The quote follows on paper, with the electrical work and any access equipment on separate lines.

3. Agreement before anything is ordered

   If a freeholder, landlord, managing agent or the council must approve the work, nothing is bought until they do. We supply the plan and noise figure they normally want to see.

4. Fitting day and handover

   We fix both units, run the pipes, drain and cable, pressure-test the pipework and pull a vacuum on it before any refrigerant goes in, then check the system in cooling and in heating. We go through the controls with you and leave the paperwork. A yearly service keeps it efficient.