Town of East Hampton
Landscape, Pool & Outdoor Lighting in East Hampton, NY
Landscape and pool lighting in East Hampton runs $90–150 per low-voltage fixture by one guide’s figures (other estimates run higher), with a typical whole-property project averaging around $3,000. Where East Hampton falls under the Town of Southampton, one flat $200 permit covers landscape and pool lighting together; the electrician we send you files it.
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Outdoor lighting in East Hampton is usually either a landscape project — paths, trees, architecture — or a pool project, and often both on the same property. Either way it runs on a low-voltage transformer and one electrical permit, not a separate process for each.
Outdoor Lighting in East Hampton: what's different here
Shingle-style village houses with panels and service runs on Suffolk County Water Authority streets that have often gone decades untouched, oceanfront estates south of the highway running a standby generator and pool lighting on an upgraded service, and Springs and Northwest Woods houses on wells whose pumps stop the moment the power does.
East Hampton sees everything from a few path lights to a full estate lighting plan, so cost here depends heavily on fixture count, not just property size.
The Town runs its own list of six approved third-party electrical inspection agencies — among them East End Inspection Agency in East Quogue and the Suffolk Bureau of Electrical Inspectors in Middle Island — though the Town's own PDF naming them is dated 2021, five years old, and its currency in 2026 is not confirmed. The Town's public EV-charging network runs Town Hall, the Amagansett Village municipal lot, and 12 DC-fast chargers in Montauk, though the Town's own page says nothing about permitting a residential charger — that runs through the ordinary electrical-permit process instead.
Permits in East Hampton run through the Village of East Hampton Building Department inside the village; Town of East Hampton Building Department — with its own approved third-party electrical inspection agencies — for Springs, Northwest Woods and the rest of the town; the electrician we put you in touch with handles the filing where one is required.
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Outdoor Lighting questions
Do I need a permit for a generator, EV charger or outdoor lighting in Southampton?
Yes, all three are separately permitted electrical work under the Town of Southampton's own 2026 fee schedule: a generator is a flat $200, an EV charging station is $100 each, and outdoor or landscape/pool lighting is $200 — one code covers both landscape and pool-adjacent fixtures under a single filing. The standard electrical permit application has dedicated fields for a generator's size and fuel type and for the number of EV chargers being installed, and it requires the contractor's Suffolk County electrical license number. A roughly 3% credit-card surcharge applies to fees paid by card. Outside Southampton Town, the permit desk and the fee differ — the electrician we send you to your town knows which one applies and files it.
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