Fencing Craigieburn
Select Fencing Sunbury installs Colorbond and timber fences in Craigieburn, on new estate lots and older blocks alike. We also hang gates, fix old fences and build sleeper walls, the low concrete or timber walls that hold back a higher yard. We'll deal with the neighbour and council on a shared fence, and your written quote is free.
- Your estate's guidelines set the colour and panel, and that's what we price.
- Older fence on its way out? We quote new posts, a few palings or the whole run.
- Tell us the rough length, and we'll measure on site if the job needs it.
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Fencing for Craigieburn's new and older blocks
Roughly a third of Craigieburn is still zoned for growth, so plenty of blocks are still getting their first fence. Here's what we install.
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Colorbond fencing in Craigieburn
Colorbond is steel sheeting that arrives already painted, so there's nothing to paint later. It's the side and back fence Aston's guidelines ask for.
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Timber paling fences
Palings are narrow upright boards of treated pine or hardwood. They suit older blocks, and estates that allow timber.
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Sleeper retaining walls
When your yard sits higher than next door's, a low wall of concrete or timber sleepers holds the soil back and the fence sits on top.
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Pool fencing
Glass or aluminium barriers around a new pool, installed once your building permit is in place.
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New estate fencing in Craigieburn
Bought in Aston? Its design guidelines spell the fence out down to the panel name and the post size.
Other Craigieburn estates write their own rules, so read the guidelines that came with your land contract before you choose.
Aston Craigieburn guidelines, section 9
- Side and back
- Colorbond Lysaght Neetascreen panels, a steel infill sheet, in Woodland Grey, 1.8 m tall. It wraps forward along the side of the house and stops no less than 1 m short of the front wall.
- Corner lots
- Miniscreen panels, another Lysaght steel sheet, between 125 mm Cypress posts, with a timber plinth (a board that sits on the soil) along the bottom and pine capping (a timber rail) along the top. Also 1.8 m and Woodland Grey, starting 4 m or more behind the house front.
- Front and wing
- A wing fence joins the side of the house to the boundary. Aston's are 900 to 1200 mm tall, at least 10% see-through, with a 1 m setback from the house front.
Source: Aston Craigieburn design guidelines v8 (PDF) (opens in a new tab)
Guidelines change between stages and versions. Go by the copy attached to your contract, and ask the developer if a line is unclear.
Fencing near Merri Creek
Merri Creek runs down the eastern side of Craigieburn, and two landscape overlays follow it. An overlay is an extra layer of planning rules on top of the usual ones, and these two cover fences.
Inside them, every new fence takes a planning permit, unless it stands beyond 50 m from the creek's top bank and is either:
- an open rural style, such as post and wire, post and rail or chain mesh, 1.4 m tall or less
- at least half see-through and shorter than 1.8 m
Land that can flood
A separate flood overlay covers small parts of the town. Inside it, fencing needs a permit, though post and rail and post and wire styles are let off.
Hume Planning Scheme: flood overlay (LSIO) (opens in a new tab)
Stony plains and clay
The Merri Creek Management Committee describes lava flows and rough, stony plains here, and notes clay was once dug at Craigieburn. Ground changes from block to block, so if there's rock in your fence line, the quote explains how it'll be handled.
Merri Creek Management Committee: catchment geology (opens in a new tab)
These overlays touch some properties and not others. A free VicPlan property report lists the ones on your address.
Fences next to Craigieburn parks and reserves
Is council land on the other side of your back fence? Hume City Council may put money towards that fence, but you have to apply, and some boundaries never qualify.
Check the boundary
Fences beside parks and reserves may qualify. Anything along a street line doesn't, which rules out the street side of corner blocks, curved streets, laneways and walkways.
Ask Hume before booking
Hume's policy sets the terms. Get them from council, and wait for its answer before any work is booked.
Private neighbour on the other sides?
There the usual Victorian rule applies: you each pay half of a basic fence that suits the area, such as 1.8 m timber palings. Hume takes requests for the owner's details, though it can't promise to release them.
Council decides each application, so check with Hume before you count on a contribution.
Hume permit rules for Craigieburn fences
All of Craigieburn is in Hume City Council. A fence along your side or back boundary can reach 2 m before a building permit comes into it, but these three rules catch people out.
- Corner blocks
- Measure 9 m along each street from the corner. Anything in that zone taller than 1 m calls for a building permit.Source: Hume City Council: Fencing and Retaining Walls (opens in a new tab)
- Sleeper walls under a fence
- Retaining walls taller than 1 m need one too. Lower walls are exempt, unless other building work goes in with them or they prop up next door's land.
- Heritage places
- Heritage listings here are single places, such as Craigieburn Hall on Potter Street and Olrig on Windrock Avenue. If yours is listed, a fence that passers-by or park users can see needs planning approval first.Source: Hume Planning Scheme: Heritage Overlay schedule (opens in a new tab)
General information only. Your title or estate may set extra rules, and Hume City Council can confirm them before work starts.
Craigieburn fencing FAQs
Rules differ from block to block. Check yours with Hume City Council or your estate before you book.
Get a free quoteUsually not. Hume wants a building permit once a boundary fence at the side or back passes 2 m. Close to a street corner it's 1 m, and for front fences closer than 3 m to the street it's 1.5 m.
Source: Hume City Council: Fencing and Retaining Walls (opens in a new tab)
Woodland Grey Colorbond Neetascreen at 1.8 m on the side and back, and Miniscreen with Cypress posts on corner lots. Check the version attached to your contract.
Source: Aston Craigieburn design guidelines v8 (PDF) (opens in a new tab)
It might, if the fence borders a council park or reserve. Street-line fences never qualify. Ask Hume how to apply first.
Source: Hume City Council: Fencing and Retaining Walls (opens in a new tab)
It can. Most new fences inside the creek's landscape overlays need planning approval, with exemptions for open fences well back from the bank. Check your address on VicPlan.
Yes. Where one yard sits higher, we can build the sleeper wall first and fit the Colorbond panels to it as part of the same job. In Hume, a wall under 1 m generally doesn't need a building permit unless it's holding up next door's ground.
A new pool barrier does, unless the work is exempt. Hume's guidance says repairing a fault a pool inspector picked up usually doesn't, but replacing more than half the barrier needs one. We install glass and aluminium pool fencing once any permit you need is in place.
Source: Hume City Council: do I need a building permit? (opens in a new tab)
Other towns near Craigieburn
Our installers also cover these towns close to Craigieburn.
- Fencing in GreenvaleAlso in Hume, where four estates ask for timber, Colorbond or brush fences.
- Fencing in TullamarineSplit between Hume and Brimbank, with homes north of Sharps Road and industry to the south.
- Fencing in Diggers RestOut west, where the Calder Freeway divides the town between Melton and Hume.
- Fencing in SunburyNorth-west across Hume, with its own estate guidelines and the Jacksons Creek overlay.
Get a Craigieburn fence priced
Tell us the fence and roughly how far it runs. In an estate? Add its name and stage in the notes.
Prefer the phone? Call (03) 9123 6479
How it works
Tell us the job
Fence type, rough length, and your estate if you're in one.
Site measure if needed
On estate lots we price the fence your guidelines name.
Written quote
Posts, panels and gates each priced on paper.
Install day
Booked once you say yes.