Fencing Shepparton
Fence installation and repairs around Shepparton
Fence installation across Shepparton: our local fencing contractors fit Colorbond, timber, cyclone mesh and farm fencing. We cover Mooroopna, Kialla and the towns nearby too.
Need a gate, a fence repair or a sleeper retaining wall? We can quote those too. Sleepers are the solid timber or concrete beams that slide in between the wall's posts, one on top of another.
- You pay nothing for a written quote
- Our installers are insured
- We quote across Greater Shepparton
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Send us your town, the kind of fence and a rough length to get started.
Fences and gates
Fencing contractors in Shepparton
Not sure which fence suits? Ask us, and we'll match it to what it has to keep in, keep out or screen.
Colorbond fencing in Shepparton
Colorbond steel gives you a solid, private boundary you'll rarely have to touch once it's up.
The posts, rails and sheets are all one colour, so both sides of the boundary look the same.
Colorbond fencing
Farm and rural fencing around Shepparton
The Goulburn Valley is farm country, irrigated and dryland, and grows about a quarter of Victoria's horticultural produce.
Besides stock fencing in wire or ringlock (farm wire mesh), we install exclusion fences that keep kangaroos and rabbits out of orchards and crops.
Farm fencing
More fencing and gates
Timber Fencing
Timber paling, picket and post and rail fences for houses and hobby farms.
Blade Fencing
A row of steel or aluminium blades makes an open front fence that still marks the boundary.
Cyclone Fencing
Cyclone mesh fences for house yards, farm sheds, schools and businesses.
Gates
Farm entrance gates for the paddock, and driveway and side gates for the house.
Sleeper Retaining Walls
Sleeper retaining walls in timber or concrete, where one part of the yard sits higher than the next.
Fence Repairs
Leaning posts, loose sheets, broken palings and slack wire.
How it works
How a fence job in Shepparton works
Tell us about the job
Mention anything we should know, like a gate, a slope or an old fence to come down.
We measure up if the job needs it
For some jobs we visit and measure before we price them.
Your written quote
You won't be charged for it, and the decision's yours to make when you're ready.
We install the fence
We start with the posts and finish with the fence itself.
Around Shepparton
Fencing jobs around Shepparton
Estate fences in Kialla and Shepparton
Seven Creeks in Kialla (Stage 21) asks for a 1.8 m Neetascreen steel fence on side and back boundaries, in a colour called Teatree. Stage 8 of The Vines in Shepparton asks for 1.8 m Colorbond in the same colour. In both, the fence steps down over the first two panels from the front.
Colorbond fencingSeven Creeks land owners pack
Before you choose
A covenant is a condition in your land title that every owner has to follow. Check yours before you settle on a fence.
The new growth area south east of town
The Shepparton South East plan, approved in June 2025, makes room for about 2,980 new homes beside the Broken River. Where a lot backs onto a bushfire hazard area shown in the plan, it asks for fencing that won't burn. Beside parks, it asks for low fences you can see through.
Blocks near the rivers
Greater Shepparton's planning scheme says parts of the river catchments here are flood prone, and floods have done serious damage in the past. Land covered by a flood overlay has its own fence rules.
Farm fencingPlanning scheme, clause 02.03
If your fence needs a permit
You apply for the planning permit, and we quote the fence to match what it allows.
Rural living blocks on the edge of town
Greater Shepparton plans for some of its new housing land to be rural living lots of 2 to 8 hectares. On a block that size, we quote for boundary fences, horse paddocks, post and rail and farm gates.
Shared fences
Shared boundary fences in Shepparton
The cost is usually shared
A dividing fence is one that runs along the boundary you share with a neighbour. Under the Fences Act, each owner usually pays half.
Agree on it first
Get your neighbour's consent before work starts, or use the Fences Act's legal process instead. Without one or the other, your neighbour can't be made to pay a share, according to vic.gov.au.
How the Fences Act worksRural boundaries
The half share only covers a sufficient fence, the standard the law expects. Between farms, vic.gov.au's example of one is a fence of wire on posts.
A quote you can share
If you're splitting the cost, we can word the quote so it's ready to show your neighbour.
Ground and bushfire
Ground and bushfire around Shepparton
We look at the soil when we measure, and your quote says how the posts will be set.
A flat river plain
Shepparton sits on the Northern Riverine Plain, where streams run north across very flat country.
Loam over heavy clay
A common soil on the plain is loam, a crumbly mix of sand, silt and clay, sitting on medium to heavy clay.
Clay that shrinks and swells
Cracking clays are most common on the northern plains of the Goulburn Broken region. They shrink and crack as they dry, then swell again when they're wet.
Clearing beside a fence
The CFA's fence line rule lets you clear vegetation beside a fence that went up before 10 September 2009 in a bushfire prone area. The cleared strip can total 4 m across both sides, but your neighbour has to agree in writing before you touch theirs.
Permits and rules
Shepparton fence permits, overlays and rules
Height and distance from the street decide most fence permits here.
An overlay is a map layer in the council's planning scheme that puts extra rules on some land, for flooding, heritage or bushfire. Some overlays call for a planning permit as well. Your council can tell you which overlays cover your block, whether that's Greater Shepparton or the Moira, Strathbogie or Campaspe shire.
Where to check
- Schedule 3
Tall fences and corners
You'll need a building permit for any fence taller than 2 m, wherever it stands on your block. Near a corner, where two streets meet, the first 9 m of fence needs one once it stands more than 1 m higher than the footpath.
Building Regulations - Regulation 89
Front fences
Up to 3 m back from the street, front fences can reach 1.5 m without a building permit, or 1.2 m in brick or concrete. Going higher takes a building permit, plus council consent above 1.5 m, or above 2 m on a freeway or main arterial road. Greater Shepparton's housing zones don't change those numbers.
Building Regulations - Floodway Overlay
Floodways
In Greater Shepparton's Floodway Overlay, timber and steel paling fences and cyclone mesh fences in a residential zone are exempt from a planning permit. A brick, masonry or concrete wall still needs one.
Floodway Overlay, clause 44.03 - Inundation Overlay
Land that floods
In Greater Shepparton's Land Subject to Inundation Overlay, any fence in a residential, commercial or industrial zone is exempt. Elsewhere, such as on farms, only open fences like plain wire are exempt. A solid or cyclone mesh fence there needs a planning permit.
Inundation Overlay, clause 44.04 - Heritage Overlay
Heritage areas
Heritage precincts in Greater Shepparton include Maude Street and Macintosh Street in Shepparton, plus township precincts in Tatura, Murchison and Dookie. They sit under a Heritage Overlay, a planning control on how an older area looks. There, any new fence in sight of a street or park has to go through planning approval first.
Heritage Overlay, clause 43.01 - Bushfire Management Overlay
Bushfire areas
Greater Shepparton's bushfire overlay names areas of Kialla, Mooroopna, Murchison and Shepparton. If your block is in it, check with council before a new fence goes in.
Bushfire overlay, clause 44.06
Where we quote
Towns around Shepparton we quote for
We quote for fencing in Shepparton, Mooroopna and Kialla, the smaller towns across Greater Shepparton and the shires next door.
Your town isn't here? Ask anyway, since our fencing contractors quote in Melbourne as well as regional Victoria. Every area we cover
Get a free quoteGreater Shepparton City Council
- Shepparton
- Shepparton North
- Shepparton East
- Mooroopna
- Kialla
- Kialla West
- Grahamvale
- Orrvale
- Congupna
- Tallygaroopna
- Undera
- Ardmona
- Toolamba
- Tatura
- Merrigum
- Murchison
- Dookie
- Katandra West
Campaspe Shire counts Murchison as one of its towns as well.
Council websiteMoira Shire
- Numurkah
- Nathalia
Strathbogie Shire
- Nagambie
- Euroa
Campaspe Shire
- Echuca
- Tongala
Shepparton fencing questions
Fencing in Shepparton FAQs
Usually not: most timber and steel fences don't need a building permit up to 2 m high, or 1.5 m in the front 3 m. Pool and spa barriers always need one, and so do fences over 1 m near a street corner. If your block has a flood, heritage or bushfire overlay, ask the council about extra rules first.
Use the Community Flood Intelligence Portal run by the Goulburn Broken Catchment Management Authority (CMA). It shows flood maps, and you can search your address for a property flood report. The report includes the estimated 100-year flood level, the height a flood with a 1 in 100 chance each year would reach.
Teatree isn't one of the 15 colours on Colorbond's fencing chart. BlueScope, the company that makes Colorbond, says to ask your fencing supplier when a colour you want isn't listed. Mention Teatree in your quote request and we'll find out what's available.
Greater Shepparton City Council covers Shepparton, Mooroopna, Kialla, Tatura and Dookie. Numurkah is in Moira Shire, Nagambie and Euroa are in Strathbogie Shire, and Echuca is in Campaspe Shire.
It depends mostly on how long and how high the fence is, and what it's made of. Digging post holes in heavy clay takes longer, and so does a job with tight access. Before any work starts, you'll have the full price in writing, and we'll tell you then if we can clear away the old fence.
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