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Expanse Fencing installs quality timber paling and privacy fences (picket fences on request) right across Brighton and Melbourne's south-east. Every job includes treated pine rails and palings, hardwood posts set in concrete and a 5-year structural warranty. You deal with the owner, Pete, from quote to handover.
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Brighton, in Bayside City Council, pairs period homes with large modern rebuilds, often side by side on the same street. That shapes the fencing: tall lapped and capped timber or aluminium slat along side boundaries for privacy between big new builds, and pickets or low feature fences at the front of the older homes. Parts of Brighton sit under heritage overlays, where a new front fence can need a planning permit, so we check that before anything is ordered. Sandy soils near the bay dig easily, and every post still goes into concrete. We also cover Brighton East, Hampton and Elsternwick.
Brighton has more heritage overlays than most Bayside suburbs, covering both individual houses and whole precincts of Victorian, Edwardian and interwar homes. Inside an overlay a new front fence, or removing the old one, can need a planning permit. Bayside’s myLot tool and a free VicPlan report show whether your property is affected before you commit to a design.
Established Brighton gardens often have large trees close to the fence line. Bayside’s local law generally needs a permit to remove or heavily prune a tree with a trunk circumference over 155cm at 1m above the ground, even on private land, so we plan post positions around big roots and check with council before anything substantial is cut.
Large contemporary homes now sit beside original houses on many Brighton streets. Owners usually want a tall, solid side boundary, and lapped and capped timber is a popular choice. Remember that Bayside counts trellis and privacy screens on top of a fence toward its height, so the total matters, not just the palings.
Bayside’s fences page says the fence regulations also apply to privacy screens, trellis and trellis extensions added to an existing fence. A building permit is generally needed where a fence could block essential sight lines, is higher than average, or is over 2m, and a fence outside the regulations needs a variation through the report and consent process. Heritage overlays in parts of Brighton can add a planning permit for front fences. Check your address on myLot or VicPlan and confirm with council before building.
Read the council’s own page before you design: Bayside City Council 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). In Brighton the fence you share may have a large building project on the other side. Agree the timing with your neighbour, and if building work damages the fence, the party responsible is generally liable for it. A normal replacement of a sufficient dividing fence is shared under the Fences Act 1968.
Brighton is roughly 14 km from our Heatherton base, along the bay side, so we book measures here with 24 hours notice and group nearby Bayside jobs where we can. We are based in Heatherton (we do not run a shopfront), and service Brighton as part of our wider run across Bayside and south east Melbourne.
Possibly. If the property is in a heritage overlay, a planning permit is often needed to demolish or build a front fence. Check Bayside’s myLot tool or a VicPlan report, then confirm with council. We focus on side and rear timber fences, and flag front fence questions at the measure.
Bayside treats trellis and screens on top of a fence as part of the fence, so the combined height has to fit the rules. A 1.8m fence with 300mm of trellis is effectively a 2.1m fence. Check with council before adding height.
Much of Brighton is on sandy ground that digs easily but gives less natural grip than clay. Every hardwood post is set in concrete at a depth suited to the site, which we confirm at the free on-site measure.
Not usually, but it changes the plan. Posts can be moved to avoid major roots, and Bayside generally needs a permit to remove a tree with a trunk over 155cm around at 1m high. Check with council before removing or cutting back a large tree.
Treated pine rails and palings on hardwood posts set in concrete. 1.8m, 2.0m or 2.1m high. Built to last 15 to 20 years.
Tall 2.1m treated pine for maximum privacy and noise reduction, keep the yard yours.
Lapped and capped finishes, plus classic timber picket fences on request, to lift your street appeal.