Plug-in Solar London / Image credits
Every photograph on this site is a library image. Photographer and licence for each are below.
Mansion blocks in west London. The balconies are shallow and made of iron. On a block like this the outside walls usually belong to the freeholder.
Photographed by Kathleen Tyler Conklin, and released under Creative Commons Attribution 2.0. See the original.
A block of flats seen from the pavement. It has a roof, walls and balconies. A leaseholder usually needs the freeholder to agree before using any of them.
Photographed by Swissdave, and released under Creative Commons Attribution 2.0. See the original.
A street in central London. Licence areas follow the electricity network. They do not follow borough boundaries, so we check your postcode.
Photographed by Kathleen Tyler Conklin, and released under Creative Commons Attribution 2.0. See the original.
Stucco, brick and a cast iron balcony. None of them is wood, so the new planning rules treat this wall differently from a timber one.
Photographed by Jim Linwood, and released under Creative Commons Attribution 2.0. See the original.
An ordinary kitchen. The form you send the network operator asks for the address the panel was installed at, which is not always the address on your bill.
Photographed by wwarby, and released under Creative Commons Attribution 2.0. See the original.
A socket with a multi-way block plugged into it. You cannot run a plug-in solar device through one of these, or through an extension lead.
Photographed by Dominic's pics, and released under Creative Commons Attribution 2.0. See the original.
Plug heads from a travel adaptor. The specification lists travel adaptors, extension cables, multi-way adaptors and RCD adaptors as things you must not plug one of these into.
Photographed by gwire, and released under Creative Commons Attribution 2.0. See the original.
We noted the licence for each photograph when we collected it. On 13 September 2026 we opened every one at full size and checked it against the words we had put under it. The concrete texture comes from transparenttextures.com and the icons come from Lucide, which is published under the ISC licence.
Tell us the postcode and what sort of building it is.
Name, postcode and email, then what sort of home it is, how you hold it, and where the panel would go. We reply by email with what the rules allow and whose permission you'd need.
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