Local CCTV installation across every SG13–SG14 postcode. 4K HikVision and Dahua cameras, neatly cabled, set up on your phone before we leave — and a single point of contact from quote to handover.
Aylesbury Aerials & Satellites covers Hertford and the wider SG13/SG14 postcodes — town centre, Bengeo, Pinehurst, Sele Farm, Foxholes, Hertford Heath, Brickendon, Bayford and the surrounding villages. Independent, locally engineered, by the engineer who'll be at your door.
We install 4K HikVision and Dahua systems across the listed Georgian and Tudor frontages around Castle Street, Fore Street and Old Cross; the Victorian and Edwardian housing around Hertford Heath and Bengeo; the post-war estates at Sele Farm and Pinehurst; and the commercial premises along Ware Road and the Mead industrial estate.
Every install is signal-tested, weatherproofed, cabled neatly with no surface trunking unless you ask for it, set up on every phone you need, and backed by a two-year workmanship guarantee. If we can't make it work, you don't pay.
Hertford is a county town with a tight medieval and Georgian conservation core wrapped around the Castle and the river junction, mixed Victorian and Edwardian housing on the slopes above, and rural villages out across SG13. The right camera plan changes street by street.
Hertford's historic core — Castle Street, Fore Street, Old Cross, Maidenhead Street and the riverside — is largely listed and conservation-controlled. The slopes up to Bengeo and Pinehurst are Victorian and Edwardian residential. Sele Farm and Foxholes are post-war estates. SG13 villages run out east through Hertford Heath, Brickendon and Bayford.
The Hertford conservation area is one of the most extensive in East Herts, covering most of the historic core. Many properties are Grade II listed. East Herts District Council Listed Building Consent is routine on Castle Street, Fore Street and the Old Cross frontages — we handle the application drawings in-house.
Hertford sees recurring vehicle theft from driveways on the leafier Bengeo and Pinehurst streets, parcel theft from commuter households along the Mead and Foxholes side, and the usual market-town commercial-burglary pattern around the High Street and the Ware Road trade-counter strip.
SG14 town centre, Bengeo, Pinehurst, Sele Farm, Foxholes, Hartham, Old Hertford. SG13 Hertford Heath, Brickendon, Bayford, Little Berkhamsted, Hertingfordbury, Hatfield Heath fringe. Same-day surveys whenever we can fit them in.
Below is the work we carry out across Hertford every week. Different property, different camera, different cable run — but always the same engineer-quotes-and-installs approach.
2-, 4-, 6- and 8-camera 4K systems for houses — driveway, front door, side returns, garden and outbuildings. Full colour night vision down to 0.001 lux, smart motion zones to ignore the cat and the bin lorry, push notifications to your phone, and 30 days of recording on a hidden NVR.
Industrial-grade installs for warehouses, trade counters, retail and offices. Evidential-quality 4K footage, ONVIF-compliant cameras, RAID-protected NVR storage, vehicle ANPR at gates and integration with intruder alarms and access control.
Cameras down, recorder won't boot, app stopped working, hard drive full, footage missing or unreadable? We diagnose, repair or replace — keeping most of the existing kit and cabling where we can. Most repair call-outs are sorted in a single visit.
Got D1 or 960H analogue cameras from a previous decade? We re-use the existing coax with HDCVI / HDTVI / TVI cameras and a modern recorder — full HD or 4K resolution without re-cabling the building. The cheapest way to bring a tired system back to life.
Outbuildings, gates, paddocks, stables and rural properties where buried cable isn't practical. Wi-Fi cameras with mesh-extender support, solar-powered standalone units and 4G-backed systems with cloud-only recording.
Wired Hikvision and Dahua video doorbells, intercom panels and electric strike releases integrated into the wider CCTV — one app for cameras, door release and recording. Far more reliable than battery doorbells that disconnect every fortnight.
Temporary CCTV towers and rapid-deploy 4G cameras for construction sites, plant compounds and short-term commercial security — daily, weekly or hire-period rates with full image-quality coverage.
Annual service to clean lenses, check focus, test motion recording, verify backup integrity, update firmware and replace failing kit before it lets you down. Recommended for any commercial system you'd present to an insurer.
Listed Tudor and Georgian frontages — discreet camera bodies, conservation-grade fixings and East Herts Listed Building Consent applications handled in-house.
Edwardian and inter-war detached and semi-detached — full perimeter 4K coverage with ANPR-equipped driveway cameras and rear-garden coverage.
Established commuter housing — wired 4K systems, video doorbells and integration with existing intruder alarms.
Post-war and 1960s estate housing — driveway-facing 4K turret cameras, front-door coverage and integration with smart-home apps.
Properties facing Hartham Common and the river — perimeter coverage of rear gardens with Hikvision ColorVu for unlit boundaries.
Village properties with larger gardens — perimeter wireless cameras, gate-mounted ANPR and Hikvision ColorVu for unlit lane-side homes.
Rural SG13 villages — 4G-backed and solar-powered cameras for outbuildings, gates and stables.
Trade counters, small industrial units, professional offices — evidential-quality 4K CCTV, ANPR at vehicle gates and remote monitoring.
We only fit CCTV brands with proper UK distribution, real five-year warranties and firmware that keeps getting security updates. No cheap re-badged kit from the back of an auction site — if it fails in two years, you'll struggle to get parts.
Our default for residential — ColorVu colour night vision, AcuSense smart detection and reliable 4K turret and bullet cameras with five-year warranty.
Workhorse commercial range — Starlight low-light cameras, WizSense AI analytics and rugged dome cameras for warehouses, retail and industrial units.
For tech-savvy homeowners and businesses already running UniFi networking — clean app, no monthly fees and stunning low-light performance.
Budget-friendly residential alternative when you want a quality wired system without the HikVision pricing.
These are realistic Hertford install prices. Every figure is a starting point — your survey produces a fixed written quote, with no day-of-install surprises.
View full pricingTell us what you're trying to protect, where the property is, how many cameras you think you need and the rough budget. We'll give you a realistic ballpark within ten minutes.
We come to you, walk the property, identify camera positions, plan cable routes, check wifi or 4G signal where relevant and confirm the kit list. You get a fixed written quote on the day.
Most domestic systems are installed inside a day. Cameras are weatherproofed, cable is run through wall / loft / soffit (no surface trunking unless you ask), the NVR is hidden in a discreet location and the app is set up on every device you need.
We show you how to use the app, how to scrub back through footage, how to export clips for police or insurance, and how to add or remove users. You leave with everything documented.
Anything we install is covered for two years. Hardware carries the manufacturer warranty (typically two to five years on HikVision and Dahua). If something fails inside that window we come back free.
Any CCTV camera that captures a space outside your own property is regulated under UK GDPR and the ICO's CCTV code of practice. Get it wrong and you can be fined — or have footage thrown out by police. Every commercial install (and any domestic system that overlooks the street, a neighbour or a public path) comes with full compliance paperwork as standard.
The questions Hertford homeowners and businesses ask us most often before they book. Something not covered? Call 01296 506085.
Yes, but Listed Building Consent from East Herts District Council is almost always required for any external camera on a listed property around Castle Street, Fore Street, Old Cross and the riverside conservation area. We survey first, propose camera positions behind existing features (gutter lines, downpipes, porch overhangs), use colour-matched cabling and reversible fixings, and prepare and submit the consent application drawings on your behalf.
Bengeo and Pinehurst Edwardians typically run a four- to six-camera 4K system with driveway-facing turret cameras (Hertford's recurring vehicle-theft pattern makes ANPR worthwhile), a wired video doorbell, rear-garden coverage of both corners and a side-elevation camera. Cabling routes internally through original picture-rail voids or up into the loft, with no surface trunking on any street-facing elevation.
Yes — these SG13 villages are core local work. For properties without good broadband we use 4G cellular cameras with cloud recording, and for outbuildings, gates and stables that are out of cable reach we install solar-powered standalone cameras with SD-card storage.
Trade counters, small industrial units, dental and clinical practices, professional offices — evidential-quality 4K commercial systems with till and waiting-room coverage, ANPR for vehicle gates, RAID-protected NVR storage and 24/7 monitored response with key-holder dispatch are all standard options.
Outside the conservation area and listed buildings, domestic CCTV falls under permitted development in East Herts — as long as cameras are positioned to minimise capturing space beyond your boundary. Inside the conservation area or on a listed property, external camera bodies on a front elevation typically need consent. Any camera that captures neighbouring property, footpath or street also brings UK GDPR / ICO obligations — we provide signage, written policy and SAR procedure as standard.
Yes — we routinely integrate Hikvision and Dahua NVRs with mainstream intruder alarm panels (Texecom, Pyronix, HKC, Honeywell, Risco) so an alarm trigger pushes the relevant camera feed to your phone or the alarm receiving centre. On commercial Hertford sites we also link to access control and ANPR.
Yes. Bring us the existing kit and we'll diagnose, repair or replace whatever's failed. We work on every mainstream brand — HikVision, Dahua, Swann, Reolink, Annke, Ring, Eufy, UniFi, Honeywell and more. The £90 diagnostic fee is credited against any repair work you go ahead with.
A four-camera install in Bengeo, Pinehurst or Sele Farm is typically half a day to a full day. A six- to eight-camera install on a larger detached property with ANPR is one to two days. Listed-building or conservation-area work in the Castle Street and Fore Street zone takes longer because of careful internal cable routing and the consent lead time.