Fencing Contractors Romsey
Select Fencing Sunbury installs fences in Romsey and on the farms around it. In town that means open front fences and Colorbond or timber boundaries, and on farms it's plain wire or ringlock, a woven stock mesh. Farm or town block, you'll get a free written quote, and we're fully insured on both.
- Front fences are priced at the height and openness Romsey's character rules allow.
- We can price the paddock fence and the house fence in one quote.
- If a long farm run needs measuring, we'll come out and do it before we send the price.
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Fence quote for Romsey
Township block or farm, tell us what you're after.
Township and farm fences in Romsey
The planning scheme calls Romsey the biggest town in the east of Macedon Ranges Shire. It's growing fast, and farmland surrounds it.
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Low front fences
Timber picket or post and rail front fences, kept low and open to suit the town.
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Colorbond fencing in Romsey
Painted steel side and back fences for the newer estate blocks.
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Farm fencing
Plain wire and ringlock, plus timber post and rail, for the farms and rural living blocks outside town.
Front fences in Romsey
Romsey has its own design overlay, a set of extra planning rules for how the town looks, called DDO18 Romsey Township Character, and its main fence rule is about the front yard.
In the overlay's words, the town's character is low houses with generous setbacks, plenty of garden and "low or no front fencing".
Any fence forward of the house, corner lots included, needs planning approval if either of these is true:
- it's taller than 1.2 m
- less than half its face is see-through
Fences that need no permit
A picket or open steel front fence that's 1.2 m or lower and at least half see-through needs no permit under this rule. A solid fence across the front, or a taller one, does.
Whether your lot is inside DDO18 is shown on a VicPlan property report.
Heritage fences in Romsey's town centre
The Romsey Town Centre Precinct is a heritage area, and the scheme lists places along Main Street within it.
Main Street
Listed places include the Catholic Church at number 85, the former Post Office at 96, the former Shire Chambers at 98 to 100 and the old National Bank at 103.
Macedon Ranges Planning Scheme: list of heritage places (opens in a new tab)
The permit question
In a heritage area, planning approval is needed for a fence that passers-by or park visitors can see, unless an exemptions plan says otherwise. The precinct has one from 2011, so ask Macedon Ranges Shire Council about your fence first.
Macedon Ranges Planning Scheme: Heritage Overlay (opens in a new tab)
Ask council before you plan any fence on a heritage property.
Farm fencing around Romsey
The scheme describes a belt of productive farmland around Romsey, and a rural break, a stretch of farmland the scheme keeps free of town growth, between it and Lancefield.
These rules come up on paddock and roadside fence lines.
General information only. Council and the state rules decide each case.
| On the fence line | The rule |
|---|---|
| Barbed wire on a road boundary | Only allowed at a height of 2 m or more.Macedon Ranges Shire Council: fences (opens in a new tab) |
| Plants along the road | The roadside vegetation overlay needs a permit to remove or lop them. It refers to a roadside management plan written for the old Romsey shire.Macedon Ranges Planning Scheme: roadside vegetation overlay (VPO2) (opens in a new tab) |
| Between two farms | Victoria's guidance gives wire and post as an example of a basic rural fence, with the cost usually split evenly.Victorian Government: Fencing in Victoria (opens in a new tab) |
| Next to council land | Council's policy treats ordinary post and wire as the standard rural fence when it looks at a contribution.Macedon Ranges Shire Council: fencing policy (PDF) (opens in a new tab) |
Romsey's building permit heights
Romsey is in Macedon Ranges Shire. A building permit comes into it at these heights.
- Back and side fences
- Past 2 m, whether it's timber, steel or anything else.Source: Macedon Ranges Shire Council: fences (opens in a new tab)
- Near the street
- Closer than 3 m to the street, the permit point is 1.5 m for a lightweight fence and 1.2 m for brick or concrete.
- Retaining walls
- From 1 m up. Shorter walls too, when they sit close to a building or the title line, or put the neighbour's land at risk.Source: Macedon Ranges Shire Council: retaining walls (opens in a new tab)
- New estates
- On a new estate or subdivision, the developer may need to approve your fence as well.
General information only. Confirm your fence with Macedon Ranges Shire Council before you build.
Questions about Romsey fences
Rules depend on your lot and its overlays, and Macedon Ranges Shire Council can confirm them for you.
Get a free quoteFor a front fence near the street (inside 3 m), a building permit applies past 1.5 m, and for brick or concrete past 1.2 m. Inside Romsey's town character overlay (DDO18), a fence forward of the house also needs planning approval if it's over 1.2 m tall, or if under half its face is see-through.
Source: Macedon Ranges Planning Scheme: Romsey town character overlay (DDO18) (opens in a new tab)
Yes, though planning approval may apply if the fence is visible to people on the road or in a park. The town centre precinct has its own exemptions plan, so talk to council about your fence first.
Source: Macedon Ranges Planning Scheme: Heritage Overlay (opens in a new tab)
Only at 2 m or higher, under the shire's fence rules. Lower down, use plain wire or ringlock on the road side.
Source: Macedon Ranges Shire Council: fences (opens in a new tab)
Normally the two owners go halves on a basic fence that suits the area, and on rural land that might be wire and post. If you can't agree, a fencing notice (the formal written request) gives your neighbour 30 days to reply.
Source: Victorian Government: Fencing in Victoria (opens in a new tab)
Yes. Across Macedon Ranges, you can take a section out of a dry stone wall, one stacked without mortar, to fit a gate without a permit. Mending damage like for like needs none either. Pulling down or otherwise changing a wall from before 1940 does need one.
Source: Macedon Ranges Planning Scheme: dry stone wall rules (clause 52.33) (opens in a new tab)
South of Romsey
Heading south from Romsey, these towns are covered as well.
Get your Romsey fence quoted
Tell us the fence and roughly how long. For a front fence, say how high and how open.
Prefer the phone? Call (03) 9123 6479
How it works
Tell us the job
Township or farm, plus the fence and its length.
Site measure if needed
For a front fence we check its height and how open it is.
Written quote
Every part of the job priced on paper.
Install day
Booked once you say yes.