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Expanse Fencing installs quality timber paling and privacy fences (picket fences on request) right across Bentleigh East and Melbourne's south-east. Every job includes treated pine rails and palings, hardwood posts set in concrete and a workmanship warranty. You deal with the owner, Pete, from quote to handover.

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Fencing in Bentleigh East: what to know

Bentleigh East, in the City of Glen Eira, has post-war brick and weatherboard homes on generous blocks and a lot of subdivision into townhouses and units. When a block is split, new dividing fences go in between the dwellings and the original boundary fences are often replaced at the same time, which is usually the simplest and tidiest approach. Flat, regular blocks keep builds straightforward and predictable. We also cover Bentleigh, Moorabbin, Oakleigh South and Carnegie.

Common fence issues in Bentleigh East

Fence rules in Bentleigh East (City of Glen Eira)

Glen Eira’s fencing page says a building permit is not needed up to 1.5m within the first 3m from the street, or up to 2m behind that. A timber or steel front fence over 1.5m, or a masonry one over 1.2m, needs a building permit, and within 9m of an intersection the limit is 1m, measured from footpath level. Gates, screens and roller doors count as fencing. If you are unsure, council invites you to email a sketch so its building compliance team can tell you whether a permit is needed. Always check with council, and check VicPlan for any overlay on your lot.

Read the council’s own page before you design: City of Glen Eira fencing information. You can also look up your address, zone and any overlays with a free VicPlan property report. Rules change and every lot is different, so please check with council before you build. We flag height, corner and overlay questions at the on-site measure.

Sharing the cost with your neighbour. Under the Fences Act 1968, owners generally share the cost of a sufficient dividing fence equally, and you start by giving your neighbour a Fencing Notice (our free Fencing Notice generator does this). Where a Bentleigh East block has been split, the shared fence may be between separate titles (a normal Fences Act cost split) or on common property (an owners corporation decision). Check the plan of subdivision before you serve a Fencing Notice.

The fences we usually replace in Bentleigh East

Bentleigh East grew out of market gardens, and most of its streets were built up in the 1950s and 1960s with brick veneer and weatherboard homes on full blocks. Those homes usually have long paling side and rear fences that have been replaced once already and are now 25 to 40 years old, with sagging rails and posts leaning in the sandy ground. Since the 1990s, many blocks have been split into two or three units, so a rear boundary can now border several owners and a mix of fence ages. Along the main roads, older fences beside busier traffic often have extra damage from wind and wear, and full-height paling is the usual replacement.

Getting to Bentleigh East from Heatherton

Bentleigh East is roughly 6 km from our Heatherton base, a short run up through Moorabbin, so it is one of the easier Glen Eira suburbs for us to book. We are based in Heatherton (we do not run a shopfront), and service Bentleigh East as part of our wider run across Bayside and south east Melbourne.

In Bentleigh East, the free on-site measure is usually booked within a few days of your request, with 24 hours notice. The install date is then confirmed in your written quote, and it depends on materials and on the neighbour notice period when the fence is shared.

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