Fencing Contractors Gisborne
Select Fencing Sunbury installs fences in Gisborne and New Gisborne: picket and steel front fences, Colorbond and timber boundaries, and post and wire on larger lots. Our workmanship is covered for three years, we're rated 5.0 on Google, and your quote is free and in writing.
- Near the town centre, front fences are quoted in the open styles council asks for.
- Rural lots get plain wire, ringlock (a woven stock mesh) or timber post and rail, with farm gates if you need them.
- Send us your suburb and the rough length, and we'll send back a price in writing.
5.0Google rating from 14 reviews. Reviews left for our installers.
Free quote in Gisborne
A few details and a price comes back to you.
Front, boundary and rural fences in Gisborne
Gisborne and New Gisborne together are the main town in the south of Macedon Ranges Shire, with older streets near the centre and larger lots on the edges.
Get a free quote
Timber fencing in Gisborne
Picket front fences with gaps between the boards, and paling fences down the sides and back.
More on timber fencing
Colorbond boundaries
Pre-painted steel for side and back boundaries, where you want privacy and no painting.
More on Colorbond fencing
Rural and lifestyle lots
Plain wire, ringlock or timber post and rail on bigger blocks, with wide gates for a trailer or float.
Sleeper retaining walls
Low walls of concrete or timber sleepers where the block falls away, and the fence can sit on top.
More on retaining walls
Front fence rules in Gisborne
Several parts of Gisborne have their own design rules, called Design and Development Overlays (DDOs). Four of them mention fences.
These are the overlay names, not street lists. A VicPlan property report shows whether your lot is inside one.
| Overlay area | What it says about fences |
|---|---|
| Gisborne Town Centre Residential Area (DDO17) | Front fences taller than 1.2 m need a permit, and solid front fencing or screening must be avoided.Macedon Ranges Planning Scheme: Gisborne town centre design overlay (DDO17) (opens in a new tab) |
| Station Road, New Gisborne (DDO16) | Front fences need a permit past 1.2 m, and must be open-style and lightweight.Macedon Ranges Planning Scheme: Station Road design overlay (DDO16) (opens in a new tab) |
| Carinya Drive and Wyralla Crescent area (DDO10) | Every fence needs a permit, apart from post and wire or a similar style.Macedon Ranges Planning Scheme: Carinya Drive design overlay (DDO10) (opens in a new tab) |
| Frith Road and Skyline Drive (DDO3) | Any fence needs a permit, with a post and wire exemption for listed lots only.Macedon Ranges Planning Scheme: Frith Road design overlay (DDO3) (opens in a new tab) |
Council help with fences next to council land
Macedon Ranges Shire Council's fencing policy, adopted in September 2026, may cover up to 50% of a standard fence where your block meets land council owns or manages.
What counts as standard
In town, a paling fence between 1.6 m and 1.8 m high. On farming, rural living or green wedge land, ordinary post and wire.
What's left out
Crown land, roads, laneways, drainage reserves, bike paths, pool fencing and most parks and reserves, unless the reserve mainly holds a council building.
Before any work
Send the Request for Half Cost Fencing Contribution form with two written quotes. Council assesses the old fence before anything is done.
Gates into council land
Vehicle gates aren't allowed. A pedestrian gate up to 1200 mm wide that swings inward may be considered.
If the boundary isn't clearly defined, you'll need a surveyor's plan, at your cost, before the new fence.
Creeks, stone walls and big blocks around Gisborne
The planning scheme describes the Macedon Massif rising from Gisborne's rolling plains, with Mount Gisborne, an old volcano vent, in view.
Jacksons Creek
The scheme says Jacksons Creek floods from time to time through Gisborne. Inside the flood overlay, a new fence needs planning approval, and where the flood area comes from Melbourne Water's mapping, there are no exemptions.
Macedon Ranges Planning Scheme: flood overlay (LSIO2) (opens in a new tab)
Dry stone walls
Across the whole shire, changing a dry stone wall (stone stacked without mortar) built before 1940 needs a permit. Cutting a gap for a gate, or repairing it like for like, doesn't.
Macedon Ranges Planning Scheme: dry stone wall rules (clause 52.33) (opens in a new tab)
Low density lots
Gisborne Rise Estate is zoned low density residential, with a 0.6 ha minimum lot size. On lots that size we quote rural styles such as plain wire, or timber post and rail, as well as palings.
Macedon Ranges Planning Scheme: low density residential zone (clause 32.03) (opens in a new tab)
Overlays apply property by property. Check yours on VicPlan before you plan the fence.
Gisborne fence heights that call for a permit
Gisborne is in Macedon Ranges Shire. These are the points where the shire asks for a building permit.
- Side or back boundary
- Over 2 m, whatever it's made of. Trellis and lattice count as part of the fence.Source: Macedon Ranges Shire Council: fences (opens in a new tab)
- Close to the street
- Closer than 3 m to the street line, past 1.5 m for lightweight fences or 1.2 m for concrete and masonry. Near a corner, past 1 m anywhere inside 9 m of the spot where the two streets meet.
- Over an easement
- An easement is a strip of your land others have rights over, such as for pipes. A fence over one needs a permit at any height.
- Retaining walls
- One metre or taller needs a permit with an engineer's design. A lower wall can too, if it's near a building or boundary, or could damage next door.Source: Macedon Ranges Shire Council: retaining walls (opens in a new tab)
General information only. Check with Macedon Ranges Shire Council before work starts.
Gisborne fencing questions
Rules depend on your property and its overlays. Confirm yours with Macedon Ranges Shire Council.
Get a free quoteIt does once a boundary fence along the side or back passes 2 m. Fences near the street have lower limits. In some overlay areas, any fence at all, or a front one taller than 1.2 m, needs planning approval as well.
Source: Macedon Ranges Shire Council: fences (opens in a new tab)
In the Gisborne Town Centre Residential Area overlay, solid front fencing is to be avoided, and front fences taller than 1.2 m need a permit. An open picket or steel style fits those rules.
Most parks and reserves are excluded from the shire's fencing policy, unless the reserve mainly holds a council building or facility. Where it does apply, council may pay up to 50% of a standard fence after assessing it.
Source: Macedon Ranges Shire Council: fencing policy (PDF) (opens in a new tab)
Yes. The shire counts trellis and lattice as part of the fence. So 1.8 m of palings with 300 mm of trellis on top is 2.1 m, which needs a permit along the side or back of the block.
Source: Macedon Ranges Shire Council: fences (opens in a new tab)
Inside the creek's flood overlay, yes. Where Melbourne Water's mapping sets that flood area, the rule lists no exemptions at all, so even plain post and wire needs planning approval. A VicPlan property report shows whether your lot is affected.
Source: Macedon Ranges Planning Scheme: flood overlay (LSIO2) (opens in a new tab)
More towns near Gisborne
Beyond Gisborne, we cover these towns too.
Ask us to price your Gisborne fence
Give us the length and the style. For a front fence, add the height you'd like.
Prefer the phone? Call (03) 9123 6479
How it works
Tell us the job
Your street, the fence style and how far it runs.
Site measure if needed
In the town centre we check the front fence's height and how see-through it is.
Written quote
A written price for each part of the fence.
Install day
Booked once you say yes.