Fencing Frankston
Fence installation and repairs in Frankston
Frankston fencing for homes, schools, factories and rural blocks, installed by our local fencing contractors. We install Colorbond steel, timber paling, blade, cyclone and farm fencing in Frankston, Seaford, Carrum Downs and Langwarrin.
We can also repair a damaged fence or add a gate. We build sleeper retaining walls too, from heavy timber or concrete beams that keep the soil in place.
- You'll get a free quote in writing
- Our installers are insured
- We quote across Frankston City
Get a free fencing quote
Tell us your suburb, the fence you're after and about how many metres.
Fences and gates
What our fencing contractors install in Frankston
Can't decide between steel and timber? Tell us what matters most and we'll help you choose.
Colorbond fencing in Frankston
A Colorbond fence is a solid steel wall from post to post, so it keeps the yard private and never needs painting.
Close to the bay in Seaford or Frankston? We'll talk you through the steel grades made for coastal sites.
Colorbond fencing
Timber fencing in Frankston
A timber paling fence keeps the backyard private and suits most houses. If one paling cracks, we replace just that one.
Choose treated pine or hardwood. Lapped palings overlap each other, so there are no gaps to see through.
Timber fencing
More fencing and gates
Blade Fencing
Open steel or aluminium blades for front fences and courtyards.
Cyclone Fencing
Cyclone fencing, also called chain mesh, for homes, schools, factories and yards.
Farm & Rural Fencing
Wire, stock mesh and post and rail fencing for paddocks and horses.
Gates
Side gates, driveway gates and pedestrian gates to suit your fence.
Sleeper Retaining Walls
Timber or concrete sleeper walls for sloping yards.
Fence Repairs
Leaning fences, snapped palings, loose sheets and storm damage.
How it works
How getting a fence in Frankston works
Tell us about the job
Pick the fence type, and tell us if the old one needs taking away.
We measure, if needed
If we need to see the fence line before pricing it, we'll find a time that suits you.
Your written quote
Free and in writing. Take your time with it.
Installation
Posts are set first, rails are fixed between them, and the palings, sheets or mesh go on last.
Around Frankston
Fencing jobs across Frankston City
Estates with a design panel
The planning scheme names Carrum Downs, Langwarrin, Sandhurst and Skye as recent growth areas. In some estates, a design review panel or committee has to approve your fence first. Frankston City Council names Sandhurst and Pindara among them.
Colorbond fencingCouncil's fences page
Before you choose
Get your estate panel's OK on the design first. Then put the estate's name on the quote form, and we'll price the fence the panel approved.
Beside Sweetwater Creek in Frankston South
A fence next to the creek or its reserve must be made of a material that won't burn, and look light and open. A planning permit can't change that rule.
Blade fencingFrankston South overlay
Front fences near the creek
Two landscape overlays cover the streets around the creek. An overlay is a planning control mapped over part of the city, and in these two, any new front fence needs a planning permit.
Factories and yards in the industrial areas
The planning scheme wants see-through fencing along the front boundary in Frankston City's industrial precincts. Security fencing goes on or behind the building line, where the front wall of the building sits. We install cyclone fencing for commercial sites, with barbed wire tops if you need them.
Cyclone fencingIndustrial precincts overlay
Next to a reserve
In those precincts, a fence within 5 m of a boundary that adjoins a reserve needs a planning permit.
Rural blocks in the green wedge
Frankston's green wedge, the rural land outside the city's growth area, covers about 4,500 hectares of farms, open space and wetlands. On rural blocks there, we install post and rail, plain wire and stock fencing.
Shared fences
Sharing a boundary fence in Frankston
Who pays for the fence
The fence on the boundary between your block and next door is called a dividing fence, and its cost is normally split down the middle.
Put it in a fencing notice
If you can't agree in person, the formal route under the Fences Act starts with a fencing notice. Frankston City Council says it should show the boundary line, the work, the contractor, a cost estimate and each owner's share. According to vic.gov.au, if you go ahead without your neighbour's OK or that process, they can refuse to pay.
More on the Fences ActA quote for the notice
Your written quote names the contractor and the cost, so you can attach a copy to the notice.
Ground
The ground around Frankston
When we come out to measure, we look at how firm the ground is, how steep it is and how we'll reach the fence line.
Clay around Langwarrin
Around Langwarrin, the land is rolling low hills, and heavy clay starts about 400 to 500 mm down.
Waterlogged in the wet months
Around Langwarrin, the soil just under the surface can get waterlogged in the wetter part of the year.
Rock on the slopes
On the Langwarrin slopes, weathered rock sits about 1 to 1.5 m down. If the post holes might hit it, the quote says how we'll dig them.
Slips on Olivers Hill
The planning scheme records damage from slope movement on Olivers Hill since the 1870s, and slips around Cliff Road since 1854.
Permits and rules
Fence permits and rules in Frankston
Frankston City Council says a front fence may need a planning permit if your land has an overlay or more than one home on it. An existing planning permit can also mean you need one. So can a covenant that limits front fences, which is a private rule attached to your land title.
Check with council
- Schedule 3
Heights without a building permit
More than 3 m from the street, a fence can be 2 m tall before you need a building permit. Closer than that, you can go to 1.5 m in timber or steel, or 1.2 m in brick or concrete, without one.
Building Regulations - Residential Growth Zone
Front fences in the growth zone
In the Residential Growth Zone beside the Frankston city centre, the planning scheme asks for front fences no higher than 1 m. Check with council before you go higher. The general residential zones, including those for the Frankston to Seaford coastal strip and for Carrum Downs and Skye, stick with the state's 1.5 m.
Growth zone schedule - Corner fence dispensation
Corner blocks
On a corner, a fence over 1 m above the footpath within 9 m of the corner needs council's consent, called a corner fence dispensation. Over 1.5 m, your neighbours also sign an Adjoining Owners Comment form. The application gives the fence's height, materials and footing details, meaning how the posts sit in the ground.
Corner fence dispensation - Erosion Management Overlay
Olivers Hill and Cliff Road
On Olivers Hill and around Cliff Road, a post and wire fence needs no planning permit. A paling fence with its base at least 75 mm off the ground doesn't need one either. For any other fence, check with council first.
Erosion overlay, Olivers Hill - Bushfire Management Overlay
Bushfire areas
Parts of Carrum Downs, Frankston, Frankston North, Frankston South, Langwarrin, Langwarrin South and Skye are in a Bushfire Management Overlay. Parts of Langwarrin and Langwarrin South are mapped at a higher bushfire level. If your block is in the overlay, ask council before you build.
Bushfire overlay schedule - Heritage Overlay
Heritage places
The planning scheme's heritage list is mostly single places, plus one precinct on Davey Street in central Frankston. If you own one of them, you need a planning permit for a new fence, unless it's hidden from the street and any park.
Heritage Overlay schedule - Pool barriers
Pool and spa fences
Pool and spa barriers need a building permit, however low the fence. Every pool and spa in Frankston City must also be registered with council.
Building Regulations
Where we quote
Suburbs around Frankston we quote for
We quote for fencing in all ten suburbs of Frankston City, and in the suburbs next door.
Suburb not listed? We also quote for jobs further afield, in Melbourne and regional Victoria. All the areas we cover
Get a free quoteFrankston City
- Frankston
- Frankston North
- Frankston South
- Karingal
- Seaford
- Carrum Downs
- Skye
- Sandhurst
- Langwarrin
- Langwarrin South
Mornington Peninsula Shire
- Mount Eliza
- Baxter
- Mornington Peninsula
City of Kingston
- Carrum
- Chelsea
- Chelsea Heights
- Patterson Lakes
Frankston fencing questions
Fencing in Frankston FAQs
Most timber or steel back and side fences up to 2 m don't need one, but a pool barrier always does. In the growth zone by the city centre, front fences should be 1 m or lower. Corner fences over 1 m need council's consent, and overlays such as Olivers Hill have their own rules.
Council's page says applications are processed within 15 business days. Building work can't start until the permit is issued, so allow for that wait when you plan the install.
Under the Fences Act, your neighbour normally pays half, but only toward a basic fence, which the Act calls sufficient. If you can't agree, it's a civil matter, and the council says it can't step in.
Ask Frankston City Council. It can give you the name and address of the owners next door, so you can contact them about building or repairing a fence.
How long and tall the fence is, which type you choose, the slope, and how easy it is to get to. Digging through heavy clay or rock takes longer too, and all of that is priced on your free written quote.
Free fencing quotes in Frankston
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