19 miles from the workshop
EV charger installation in Burgess Hill
Nineteen miles up the A24 and A272 to an estate town laid out around the garage and the drive — the easiest charger geography on our patch, and the town where the car most often changes the size of the solar and the battery too.
In short
EV charger installation in Burgess Hill from Solar Squirrel means a dedicated circuit, the right protection at the board and a notification to UK Power Networks, fitted and certificated by the NICEIC-registered electricians who also do our solar and battery work — about 19 road miles from our Washington workshop. A home charger needs your own off-street parking; where a house has none, the page says what the council offers instead. If the board or the supply needs work first, you hear that at the survey, not on the day.
What decides a charger job in Burgess Hill
Where the car parks, what the supply and the board will take, and who has to be told. These are the local facts behind those three questions in Burgess Hill.
The local facts behind a Burgess Hill charger quote
- Approximately 19 road miles north-east of Washington via the A24 and A272, a little under half an hour outside the school run.
- A built-up-area population of 33,352 at the 2021 Census across six wards, much of it estate housing with a drive, an integral garage or both — the home-charger case in its simplest form.
- Mid Sussex is one of the partners in West Sussex County Council’s on-street charging programme with Connected Kerb — 78 phase-one locations across the county in August 2022, fully funded by the operator — for the streets that do not have a drive.
- Mid Sussex District Council voted on 2 November 2022 to take its own operations to net zero by 2040 and points eligible households to the Warmer Homes scheme; a car is the largest single load most of these houses will ever add, and our model allows 1,800 kWh a year for it.
- Every charging point is a dedicated circuit, protected at the board, tested and certificated by our own NICEIC-registered electricians and notified to UK Power Networks — RH15 is group J.
- A flat owner or a renter with their own private off-street parking space can claim 75% of the cost of buying and installing a charger, up to £500, under the government’s chargepoint grant (gov.uk, read 19 October 2026); the vehicle has to be on the OZEV-approved list, and the installer assesses whether the space allows safe charging.
- Hassocks and Hurstpierpoint, a few miles south on the B2116, are covered from this page.
The garage wall, the drive and the board
The unit goes on the garage wall or the house wall nearest where the car actually stops — we ask, because the obvious wall is not always the one the car is next to. The run to the consumer unit is short on most estate houses, and a modern board usually has a spare way, so a single charger is typically a day. Where the garage has been converted into a room the run is longer and the survey measures it.
On the older estates the supply can still be the constraint: a charger, an oven and a shower at once is more than some supplies enjoy, so the charger is load-managed where the survey says so. Electricians in Burgess Hill is the same team if the board needs work first.
Designed with the solar and the battery, not after them
A Burgess Hill house with a car on the drive is the clearest case on the patch for sizing the three together: the array to the house plus the car’s share, the battery to the job you want it to do, the charger to the supply the house has — and a cheap overnight tariff to the three of them. Solar panels in Burgess Hill and battery storage in Burgess Hill are the other two parts; the garage question is the longer read, and export tariffs compared lists the cheap-rate import tariffs the car makes worth having.
Two things people in Burgess Hill ask before they book
“Should we wait for the car before fitting the charger?”
The circuit can go in with the solar and the board work, and the unit on the day the car arrives — or all at once. What we would not do is size the battery and the array without knowing a car is coming, because that is the load that changes everything.
“Does a charger need the network to approve it?”
It needs the network to be told, which we do as part of the job. Approval before energising is a question for the inverter on a larger solar or battery system, not for the charger on its own.
What you are not committing to
- A conversation first — where the car parks, what the board looks like, whether a car is here yet — so no visit is wasted.
- A written quote with the circuit, the protection and the notification included, and a separate line for any board work the house needs anyway.
- If a home charger is not possible on your parking, you are told so and pointed at the public network instead.
- The same electricians fit it, test it, certificate it and notify it: MCS certified · NICEIC Approved Contractor.
Questions we get asked in Burgess Hill
Do you install EV chargers in Burgess Hill?
Yes — nineteen road miles from our Washington base, on the same run as Haywards Heath. A dedicated circuit, protection at the board, a tested and certificated installation and the notification to UK Power Networks, by the electricians who do our solar and battery work.
Do you cover Hassocks and Hurstpierpoint for EV chargers?
Yes — a few miles south on the B2116, on the same operator and with the same survey.
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Get a Burgess Hill charger quote
Tell us where the car parks, what the board looks like, and whether the car is here yet or a year away. A written quote follows — circuit, protection, notification and certificate included — from the electricians who will fit it.
- Call 01243 882444
- Email hello@solar-squirrel.co.uk
- Based Washington, West Sussex
If solar genuinely won’t pay for itself on your usage, we’ll say so and save us both an afternoon.