Air conditioning in Wilmington
Wilmington is a parish of nearly 8,000 people with one shop, five pubs and eight schools, cut in two by the A2 and reaching from the edge of Dartford down to Joydens Wood. We install and service air conditioning across all of it, and the two things we check first here are which side of the A2 you are on and whether you are inside the Church Hill conservation area.
Price a job in Wilmington
Three details and we call you back with the next step.
- Postcodes DA2
- Dartford Borough Council
Which side of the A2 are you on?
It matters more than it used to. The A2 dual carriageway cut through the village in the 1970s, and Dartford Borough Council has now drawn its newest planning rule along the same line. An Article 4 direction on houses in multiple occupation north of the A2 was made by the full Council on 8 December 2025 and brought into force immediately, then confirmed on 23 February 2026; a second direction for the area south of the A2 was confirmed the same day and takes effect on 10 December 2026. From then, turning a house anywhere in the parish into a shared let for up to six people needs planning permission. The direction does not touch an outdoor unit on an ordinary home, but it tells a landlord which rules his street is under, and a tenant in a shared house still needs the landlord's written consent before anything is fixed to it. Sources: Wikipedia; Dartford Borough Council.
What does the Church Hill conservation area change?
Where the outdoor unit can go. Dartford Borough Council designated the Church Hill, Wilmington conservation area in September 1998, with notice given on 29 September that year, and adopted its appraisal in March 1999. It covers the old heart of the village around St Michael and All Angels church, where in the reign of Edward IV a manor house was a residence of Richard Neville, the Earl of Warwick who made and unmade kings. Inside the boundary, permitted development keeps an outdoor unit off any wall or roof that fronts the road and off any spot nearer the road than the house, and a listed building needs consent before anything is attached to it. The rest of Wilmington, Joydens Wood included, is outside the area and under the ordinary rules. Sources: Dartford Borough Council; The Gazette; appraisals page; Wikipedia; Planning Portal.
What is the housing like between the village and Joydens Wood?
Suburban and spread out. The parish council, founded in 1895, describes a parish of roughly three square miles with a population nearing eight thousand, eight schools, one shop and five pubs, running from the southern edge of Dartford through Leyton Cross to Joydens Wood, almost to the A20. The 2011 Census put 7,178 people in 6.78 square kilometres, about 1,059 people to the square kilometre. In the 19th century the village was known for its gardens and cherry orchards; what replaced them is semis and detached houses with gardens, the easiest case for an outdoor unit. Wilmington Grammar School for Boys, Wilmington Grammar School for Girls and Wilmington Academy, built in the mid-1970s, are also on our list for workplace and server room work. Our air conditioning in Dartford page carries the borough-wide housing figures. Sources: Wilmington Parish Council; Wikipedia; Census 2021.
What we fit and look after in Wilmington
The whole of our service list reaches Wilmington. Pick one for the detail.
Air conditioning installation in Wilmington
The whole job from the first measurement to the handover of the remote, with every consent checked on the way.
Home air conditioning in Wilmington
The back bedroom, the new flat with the glass wall, the loft nobody can sleep in: cooled in summer, warmed in winter.
Air-to-air heat pumps in Wilmington
The same wall unit, run the other way: a room heated for pence an hour, with the summer cooling thrown in.
Multi-split air conditioning in Wilmington
Several rooms, one box in the garden. The design that fits inside a semi's single permitted outdoor unit.
Conservatory air conditioning in Wilmington
For the glass room that is a greenhouse in July and a fridge in January, and the garden office beside it.
Office air conditioning in Wilmington
Offices from a room above a shop to a floor on a business park, with the heat rules and the landlord dealt with.
Commercial air conditioning in Wilmington
Retail and hospitality premises, sized with the door open and the bedroom over the shop remembered.
Server room cooling in Wilmington
Dedicated cooling for the rack, calculated from the wattage on the plugs and running when the office is dark.
Air conditioning servicing in Wilmington
An annual visit for any system by any installer, with the legal leak check where the charge demands one.
Air conditioning repairs in Wilmington
Warm air, a puddle under the indoor unit, ice on the pipes or a blinking code: the cause found before anything is ordered.
From first call to first cool night
Tell us about the room
A call to 01322 952910 or the form with your postcode in it. Which room overheats, what the building is, and whether the outside wall is yours to drill.
Survey, then a figure in writing
We measure the room, choose a position for the outdoor unit, calculate the sound at the neighbour's window, look inside the consumer unit and ask about leases, landlords and covenants. The price arrives in writing with the electrics itemised.
Consents settled first
If a freeholder, landlord, management company or council has a say, we wait for it, and we supply the drawings and sound figures they will ask for.
Installed, tested, shown to you
Units, pipes and the new circuit are fitted; the pipework is pressure tested and evacuated before charging; the system runs in both modes while we measure it; the certificates are yours and so is a tour of the remote. After that, a service once a year.
Wilmington questions
Do you cover Joydens Wood and Leyton Cross?
Yes. The whole parish is on our round, along with Hextable to the south and Bexley village across the border to the west.
Our house is in Church Hill. Can we still have a unit?
Almost certainly, at the back or on a side wall out of sight of the road. If the only position faces the road, it becomes a planning application and we prepare the drawings.
Is the weather the same as in Dartford?
Yes. Wilmington is under three miles south of Dartford, and the Greenwich figures on our Dartford air conditioning page are the nearest the Met Office publishes.
Sources we checked
- Wikipedia: Wilmington, Kent
- Dartford Borough Council: Article 4 directions for houses in multiple occupation
- Dartford Borough Council: the borough's conservation areas
- The Gazette: designation of the Church Hill, Wilmington and Red Street conservation areas (1998)
- Dartford Borough Council: conservation area appraisals and the Dartford Plan
- Planning Portal: when an air source heat pump on a house or flats is permitted development
- Wilmington Parish Council: about the parish
- Census 2021: accommodation type, Dartford
Worth knowing before you ring
With these we can usually tell you on the first call whether the job is simple.
- The postcode
- Whether it is a house, a flat or business premises, and roughly its age
- If you rent or lease, who owns the external wall
- Which room, how big, and the direction its window faces
- Any management company, conservation area or listing that applies
Price a job in Wilmington
A name, a number and a postcode is enough. Say which room if you can. Or ring 01322 952910.