Front Garden Fence Height Regulations

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Front garden fence height regulations.

It does not come any further forward than the principal elevation the front of your house or the side elevation the side of your house it s not within or on the boundary of the grounds of a listed building. Under permitted development your gate wall or fence can be up to 2 metres in height as long as. No part of the site is a listed building or within the curtilage of a listed building. Garden boundaries fences and defensive plants.

Your council treats a trellis as a fence or a garden wall. A home with a corner lot has different fence rules than other homes because the house has a street on one side as well as in the front. The trellis on top can therefore exceed 2 metres. Fencing is a fantastic way of marking property boundaries and securing land but there are laws and regulations put in place across england to ensure that fencing is placed at the right locations and to the right sizes.

If a previously existing fence violates new height regulations in most cases it can remain. For instance fences built in the front or outside yard must have a maximum height of 42 inches while fences in the rear yards can have a maximum height of 72 inches. In the case of a typical corner lot a fence that is closer than 10 feet to the street can have a maximum of 4 feet in height while a fences that is more than 10 feet from the street can have a fence height of 6 feet or lower. If an existing fence wall or gate already exceeds the limits above that its height would not be increased.

The maximum height of a garden fence with trellis on top is defined when. If your fence typically the front garden fence fronts a road a footpath or public highway and is more than 1 metre high then you need to apply for planning permission. The fence was built before the passage of the law. Which has open planned front gardens there is likely to be a covenant restricting the erection of any fence or hedge to the front of the dwelling and you must therefore.

If your fence does not front a road usually the back garden then the maximum height without planning permission is 2 metres including any trellis topper. Your council treats a trellis as a temporary structure. A person can apply for a variance a one time exception to the law if they intend to build a fence that violates a local ordinance. You will require planning permission for any new fence gate or wall over 2m in height.