Up to £5,000 back is on offer to some Tottenham homeowners from Haringey Council, but not for solar panels on their own. The Power Boost Haringey Fund, open from March 2026, pays cashback only when two or three types of measure go in together, and panels with a battery count as one type. That detail is typical of the help around N15 and N17: real, but narrower than the headline, and different for owners, private tenants and council tenants.
This guide sets out each route as it stood when we checked in October 2026. For the roof itself, including the Article 4 rules on street elevations in Tower Gardens and Peabody Cottages, see our page on solar panels in Tottenham.
What Haringey has committed to
Haringey declared a climate emergency in 2019 and adopted its Climate Change Action Plan in 2021. Its targets are a net zero carbon borough by 2041 and a net zero council by 2027, the second covering its seven core buildings and its vehicle fleet rather than every council home. The council says 50% of Haringey’s carbon emissions come from homes, which is why most of the help below is aimed at houses and flats in places like Tottenham rather than at council offices.
Power Boost Haringey: for owners doing more than one thing
The fund gives 15% cashback for two types of measure and 25% for three, up to £5,000, and is paid from carbon-offset money the council collects through section 106 planning agreements. It sits within the Power Up Homes group-buying scheme run by RetrofitWorks, so the cashback is tied to installing through that scheme. For a Tottenham owner, the practical pairing is panels and a battery as one type with insulation or glazing as the second. The Tottenham constituency’s median EPC score is 72, above Haringey’s 69, but only 34.7% of its terraced houses and 33.9% of its semis reach band C, so many owner-occupied houses have fabric work worth considering. Compare the group-buy route with independent quotes, ours included, on the same specification.
The Warm Homes: Local Grant through the GLA
For lower-income households in privately owned homes, owner-occupied or privately rented, the Warm Homes: Local Grant reaches Haringey through the Greater London Authority’s consortium of 31 councils; GOV.UK’s list, updated 2 July 2026, shows £53,470,024 for it. Eligibility starts with an EPC of D to G and household income usually of £36,000 or less, or a qualifying postcode or benefit, with savings under £25,000 under the GLA’s rules. Solar panels are among the possible measures, and a battery is funded only alongside solar PV. In years two and three each borough has its own queue, capped at up to 250% of its allocation, and the GLA says a place in it does not guarantee funding. With 35.0% of Tottenham households renting privately, note that a landlord may need to pay for part of the work.
Private landlords already face a floor of their own. Haringey’s retrofit guidance notes that it is unlawful to let a home rated F or G without a valid exemption, so if you rent privately in one of Tottenham’s eight wards, the grant, the landlord’s obligations and any solar plan belong in the same conversation with your landlord.
A fee is a warning sign
The GLA has warned that people are approaching Londoners and asking for £300 to £1,500 on the promise of a successful application or a solar installation. It says neither it nor its delivery partner will ever ask residents to pay to confirm eligibility or to pay for installing measures such as solar panels. In Haringey and the other consortium boroughs, apply only through the official GOV.UK route, and treat a doorstep offer at a Tottenham address that ties the grant to an upfront payment as a reason to say no.
Council homes and Tower Gardens North
In Tottenham’s eight wards 34.0% of households rent socially, 20.3% from the council, and in Northumberland Park ward the social-rented share is 41.3% (Census 2021). For them the route is the council’s own programme. In March 2025 Haringey announced a Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund scheme for around 200 street properties on Tower Gardens North in N17 and the Coldfall Estate in N10, with external wall and loft insulation and double-glazed windows and doors, as the start of a programme to retrofit all 15,000 council homes. Solar was not in the announced measures, and only the announcement is on record here, so ask your housing officer what is planned for your street.
What is paused or closing
Switch Together, the group-buying scheme formerly called Solar Together, said on its Haringey page on 15 October 2026 that it is not open in the area, and invited residents to register for the next round. ECO4, the supplier-funded scheme for qualifying households, runs until 31 December 2026. England has no general government grant for household solar, so for most of Tottenham’s owner-occupiers the cost question comes down to the quote, and to VAT: solar panels and batteries are zero-rated until 31 March 2027 and 5% from 1 April 2027, as our guide to VAT on solar panels and batteries explains.
A sensible order for a Tottenham household
If you own your house, check the EPC first. A D-rated terrace may qualify for the Warm Homes grant if your income fits, and may suit Power Boost if you would add insulation anyway. If neither fits, have the rear slope surveyed, since the Tower Gardens and Peabody Cottages directions restrict street elevations, and weigh the figures in our guide to solar panel payback time. Our page on battery storage in Tottenham covers the grant’s battery rule and what a battery does in a power cut, and the solar panels in North London hub covers the boroughs around Haringey.
Sources: London Borough of Haringey, Climate (targets and Climate Change Action Plan), Power Boost Haringey scheme, Retrofit design guide section 4, and news release of 25 March 2025 (Hundreds of council homes to become warmer and energy efficient); Greater London Authority, Warm Homes: Local Grant, including its important notice for applicants; GOV.UK, Warm Homes: Local Grant successful local authorities (updated 2 July 2026); GOV.UK, Apply for the Warm Homes: Local Grant; Switch Together, Haringey solar page (read 15 October 2026); Ofgem, Energy Company Obligation; HMRC VAT Notice 708/6; ONS Census 2021 via Nomis, TS054 for Tottenham’s eight 2022 wards (our sums) and Northumberland Park ward; ONS, Energy efficiency of housing in England and Wales (28 October 2025), Tottenham constituency and Haringey. Pages read 15 October 2026.