Fencing Sunbury
Fences, gates and retaining walls around Sunbury
Sunbury fencing, installed by our local fencing contractors: capped paling with a timber rail on top, chain mesh and Colorbond. Estates like Kingsfield ask for capped paling, and we install farm fencing too, in Sunbury, Bulla and Diggers Rest.
We'll also install a new gate, fix a damaged fence or build a sleeper retaining wall. Its sleepers are thick timber or concrete boards, slotted between posts to keep a sloping bank in place.
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Fences and gates
Fencing contractors in Sunbury
Not sure what suits? Say what the fence needs to do and whether your estate has rules, and we'll help you choose.
Colorbond fencing in Sunbury
Colorbond steel is strong, keeps next door's yard out of view, and won't rot like timber.
Estate rules on it vary in Sunbury. Everley doesn't allow Colorbond, while Redstone asks for charcoal Colorbond in two of its six neighbourhoods.
Colorbond fencing
Timber fencing in Sunbury
A timber paling fence is private, and it's simple to patch if a paling cracks.
It's the fence several of Sunbury's newer estates ask for, often with capping, a timber strip fixed along the top. Redstone sets the finish by neighbourhood, from raw treated pine to a charcoal stain.
Timber fencing
Other fencing and gates
Blade Fencing
Slim steel or aluminium blades that let light through, good for courtyards and front gardens.
Cyclone Fencing
Cyclone (chain mesh) fencing for backyards, rural blocks and tennis courts.
Farm & Rural Fencing
Fencing for horse paddocks and stock on acreage, including ringlock, a farm wire mesh.
Gates
A side gate, a driveway gate or a farm entrance gate to match your fence.
Sleeper Retaining Walls
Sleeper walls to level a sloping block, with the fence built on top if you want it.
Fence Repairs
Loose posts, cracked palings and dented or fallen Colorbond sheets.
How it works
How a Sunbury fence quote works
Send us the basics
Add a note if you already know there's rock on the line or a steep slope.
We measure if needed
If the job needs a site measure, we'll book one in before we price it.
We send a written quote
There's no charge for it, and no deadline to say yes.
We install the fence
Once the posts are in and the rails are on, we add the palings, Colorbond sheets or wire.
Around Sunbury
Fencing for each part of Sunbury
Homes in the new estates
Kingsfield's guidelines ask for lapped paling, where each paling overlaps the next, 1.8 m high and capped, with the posts showing on both sides. It has to be built within 30 days of your occupancy permit, the sign-off you need before moving in. At Everley, the fence has to be finished before you move in.
Timber fencingKingsfield guidelines
Tell us your estate
Mention which estate you're in, and your quote will follow its guidelines.
Blocks near Jacksons Creek
Jacksons Creek runs through Sunbury in a deep valley, fed by Kismet, Blind and Harpers Creeks. Victoria's SES warns that short bursts of heavy rain can flash-flood these smaller creeks and the drains around them.
Post and wire fencingHume flood guide
Flood overlays
A flood overlay marks land that can flood. On a block inside one, Hume has to approve most fences through a planning permit. Post and wire and post and rail fences are the exceptions.
Heritage houses in the older streets
Hume's heritage list includes houses in Barkly, Macedon and Station Streets. For older homes like these, we quote picket and timber front fences to match the period of the house.
Who applies for the permit
If the fence needs a planning permit, you make the application to Hume, and our quote covers the fence itself.
Acreage around Bulla and Diggers Rest
Outside the township, Sunbury is surrounded by rural land: flat volcanic plain broken by volcanic cones and creek valleys. Our installers fence these blocks for stock and horses, in post and wire, ringlock or post and rail.
Shared fences
Boundary fences and your Sunbury neighbours
Each owner usually pays half
The fence on your shared boundary is a dividing fence, and under the Fences Act you and your neighbour normally go halves. Want next door to see the price? We'll write the quote so it can be shared.
Agree before work starts
Your neighbour only has to pay their half if they agreed before work began, or if you followed the Fences Act steps, as vic.gov.au explains. The first step is a fencing notice, which puts the proposed job and price in writing.
How the Fences Act worksFinding who owns next door
Can't reach the owner? Hume takes online requests for neighbouring property details. Council says it's an application only, so you may not be given them.
Hume neighbour details requestBacking onto a park or reserve
If your block borders council land, such as a park or reserve, Hume may contribute to a new fence. That comes under its Half Cost Fencing Policy. Council won't fund a fence that runs along a street.
Hume Half Cost Fencing Policy
Ground and slope
Rock and slope around Sunbury
At the measure, we look at how much the block slopes and whether a ute can reach the fence line.
Basalt plain
Sunbury sits on a basalt plain, laid down by old lava flows, and Jacksons Creek has cut deep valleys through it. Along the creek, the lava shows as rocky outcrops.
Rock in the fence line
Where we find rock along the fence line, we'll note it on your quote along with how we'll handle it.
Sloping blocks
On the creek valley sides and around Redstone Hill and Jacksons Hill, blocks can slope. A fence can step down the slope, or sit on a sleeper retaining wall built in the same job.
Retaining wall permits
Hume's fence page says a retaining wall taller than 1 m needs a building permit. Lower walls don't need one, unless they're part of other building work or protect the property next door.
Permits and rules
Sunbury fence permits and Hume council rules
Sunbury comes under Hume City Council, so that's who to ask about your block.
Hume's planning scheme sets what can be built where, and it adds its own fence rules along Jacksons Creek and at heritage places.
Check with council
- Hume City Council
Building permits
A fence needs a building permit above 2 m, or above 1.5 m if it's a front fence less than 3 m from the street. Within 9 m of an intersection, it's needed above 1 m. A brick or masonry fence needs one anywhere above 1.2 m.
Hume fencing rules - Landscape overlay
The Jacksons Creek valley
Jacksons Creek, biik wurdha, has its own Significant Landscape Overlay, which is there to keep the valley looking natural. Inside it, a solid paling or Colorbond fence can't go in without a planning permit. An open wire or rail fence up to 1.4 m is exempt if it's more than 50 m from the top of the creek bank.
Jacksons Creek overlay - Heritage Overlay
Heritage places
Hume's Heritage Overlay protects listed buildings and precincts, including Rupertswood, Emu Bottom, Caloola and the Railway Station Precinct. Listed properties and listed precincts need Hume's planning permit for any fence that can be seen from the street or from a park.
Hume Heritage Overlay - Estate guidelines
Where side fences stop
Everley's side fences have to end 1 m or more short of the closest front wall, or 3 m short on corner lots. On corner lots, Kingsfield wants 4 m measured from the house front, and Maplestone 8 m from the front boundary.
Everley guidelines
Where we quote
Places near Sunbury we quote for
We quote in Sunbury, across the rest of Hume and out toward the Macedon Ranges.
Not on the list? Send us the suburb or town, as we price jobs anywhere in Melbourne and regional Victoria. All the areas we cover
Get a free quoteHume City Council
- Sunbury
- Bulla
- Greenvale
- Craigieburn
City of Melton
- Diggers Rest
Diggers Rest is split between Melton and Hume.
Council fence informationToward the Macedon Ranges
- Gisborne
- New Gisborne
- Riddells Creek
- Romsey
Sunbury fencing questions
Sunbury fencing FAQs
Not for most back and side fences on a house block. Most fences in the Jacksons Creek overlay or a flood overlay need a planning permit, and so does a street-facing fence on a heritage-listed property. Pool barriers are different: every one needs a building permit.
Not in Everley, Kingsfield, Maplestone or Redstone, which all say no front fences. Kingsfield makes an exception where the developer built one, and Redstone only in specially marked precincts.
Hume City Council says it has no power to settle fencing disputes between neighbours. Instead, it refers you to the Dispute Settlement Centre of Victoria.
Not without a planning permit, if it's a dry stone wall built before 1940. A dry stone wall is built from stones fitted together without mortar. That rule covers most of Hume, but taking out a section to fit a gate is exempt.
Mostly the length, the fence material and its height. A sloping or rocky block can add to it, and so can a retaining wall or the style your estate requires. The quote is free and puts the total in writing before we start digging.
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