Fencing Toolern Vale
Select Fencing Sunbury fences acreage in Toolern Vale: plain post and wire, ringlock (a woven stock mesh) and post and rail, plus Colorbond or timber around the house. The quote for your block comes free and in writing, and you can ring us from about 6am to 8pm.
- Paddock boundaries, the house yard and the gates can share one quote.
- Old wire and posts can come out as well, and we cart them away to the tip.
- If we need to walk the paddock to measure it, we'll do that before we write up the price.
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Toolern Vale fence quote
Paddock or house yard, give us the basics.
Farm and house fences in Toolern Vale
Toolern Vale is one of the City of Melton's rural areas, part of the green wedge, the rural belt kept around Melbourne. A lot of the fencing here is built for stock.
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Plain, barbed and ringlock wire
Ringlock is a woven wire mesh for sheep and smaller stock. Plain and barbed wire are common for cattle. Every run is tensioned off strainers, the heavy posts that anchor the ends and corners.
Post and rail
Timber rails between posts, often used for horses and around the house paddock.
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Colorbond around the house
A steel fence to close in the house yard or the shed.
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Sleeper retaining walls
To level the ground for a house or shed on a slope, with drainage behind the sleepers.
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Fencing along Kororoit Creek
The first protected stretch of Kororoit Creek starts at Toolern Vale and runs to the edge of Melton's urban area. The planning scheme describes it as a shallow creek meandering through open grazing land on the basalt plain, with low volcanic hills in view.
A landscape overlay, a layer of extra planning rules, covers that stretch. Inside it, planning approval is required for fencing, apart from these:
- a temporary fence for stock or farm work, standing no more than 60 days
- metal post and wire, post and rail, ringlock or chain mesh, 1.4 m tall or less, sited beyond 50 m from the bank's upper edge
- anything at least half see-through and shorter than 1.8 m, also beyond that 50 m line
Bushfire prone land
The planning rules for the creek say parts of its corridor are in or next to a bushfire prone area. A free VicPlan property report shows whether your land is.
The overlay doesn't cover every property. Check your address on VicPlan before you plan a fence near the creek.
Heritage, stone walls and clearing in Toolern Vale
For fence heights, state building rules apply. A building surveyor or Melton City Council can confirm whether a permit applies to yours.
- Hillview, Benson Road
- Hillview at 332 Benson Road is heritage listed for its timber house, stable, stone dairy and stockyards. On listed land, fencing in view of a road or a park requires planning approval.Source: Melton Planning Scheme: list of heritage places (opens in a new tab)
- Old stone walls
- Dry stone walls are stones stacked without mortar, and the City of Melton protects groups of them around Mount Kororoit and Mount Cottrell. If an old wall runs along your fence line, ask council before touching it.Source: Melton Planning Scheme: list of heritage places (opens in a new tab)
- Clearing for the fence
- Without a permit, native plants beside a fence can only be cleared as far as building or keeping up the boundary fence needs. The two sides together can't take more than 4 m. Other controls can still protect some plants, so ask Melton City Council first.Source: Melton Planning Scheme: native vegetation rules (clause 52.17) (opens in a new tab)
General information only. Check your property with Melton City Council before you build.
How fence installation works in Toolern Vale
Tell us the job
Boundary length, fence type and the stock you run.
Site measure if needed
On farmland we note the corners, gates and any creek frontage.
Written quote
Strainers, wire and gates set out in a written price.
Install day
Booked once you say yes.
Toolern Vale fence questions
Overlays and rules vary by property. Confirm yours with Melton City Council first.
Get a free quoteUsually not for an open rural fence away from the creek. Inside the Kororoit Creek overlay, most fences need one. The exceptions are temporary stock fences, and open or half see-through fences sitting beyond 50 m from the bank. A heritage listing can add a permit too.
Source: Melton Planning Scheme: Kororoit Creek landscape overlay (SLO4) (opens in a new tab)
Yes, without a landscape permit, as long as it's for stock or farm work and it comes down within 60 days.
Source: Melton Planning Scheme: Kororoit Creek landscape overlay (SLO4) (opens in a new tab)
To maintain an existing fence or build a boundary fence, you can clear only what's needed, with both sides adding up to 4 m at most.
Source: Melton Planning Scheme: native vegetation rules (clause 52.17) (opens in a new tab)
It can, if you're replacing an existing fence along land Melton City Council owns or manages. On rural land, council pays up to half of a plain post and wire sheep fence, built to the VicRoads Type B drawing. You'll need two written quotes, and council looks at the old fence before work begins.
Source: Melton City Council: contribution to fencing costs policy (PDF) (opens in a new tab)
No. The Toolern growth area, with estates like Toolern Waters, is part of Melton's urban area. Toolern Vale is a rural area outside the growth boundary.
Next door to Toolern Vale
Two more towns our installers cover, both close to Toolern Vale.
- Fencing in MeltonDown the creek in the same council, with new estates and a half-cost policy for reserve fences.
- Fencing in Diggers RestEast across the green wedge, divided at the Calder Freeway into a Melton side and a Hume side.
- Fencing in SunburyNorth-east past Diggers Rest, on the Hume side of the boundary.
Price a farm fence in Toolern Vale
Give us the boundary length and the fence type. Add the stock you keep and how many gates.
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