Sunninghill · SL5 · Berkshire
Fencing & Walls in Sunninghill.
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Fencing & Walls
Sunninghill, SL5
Close-board fencing
£120–£200 /m run
Including concrete posts and gravel boards
Sunninghill
Fencing & Walls in Sunninghill, Berkshire
What changes here.
Boundary work in Sunninghill follows the village's mixed plot sizes closely. Around the High Street and North Ascot, older properties commonly want a brick or stone garden wall that matches an existing boundary, or close-board fencing where the garden backs directly onto a neighbouring plot with barely a gap between them. On the newer, smaller gardens near recent developments the priority is usually privacy on a tighter footprint — a taller close-board run or a rendered blockwork wall doing more work per metre because there is less garden either side of it to soften the boundary.
Fencing & Walls ground conditions in Sunninghill
Sunninghill's ground behaves the same way Ascot's does a few streets over — free-draining sand in places, heavier clay pockets in others — which decides post choice as much as anything else. Concrete posts and gravel boards are the standard specification here for that reason: a timber post set into sandy topsoil will not hold its line for as long as the boards fixed to it last. Where a retaining wall is needed on a sloped plot, which comes up more on the older High Street gardens than the flatter newer ones, drainage behind the wall face is built in from the first course rather than added once the wall has started to lean.
Planning and permissions in Sunninghill
Permitted development allows a fence up to 2m at the rear of a Sunninghill property and 1m where it meets a public highway, under the same Royal Borough of Windsor & Maidenhead rules that apply across the wider Neighbourhood Plan area. The one check worth doing early on the older High Street plots is a tree preservation order where a boundary run passes close to a mature tree, since root protection can change where a post is actually allowed to go in rather than where the fence line was drawn on paper.
Pricing guide
Fencing & Walls costs in Sunninghill.
Ranges, not quotes. Access, levels, drainage and ground conditions move these numbers in both directions, and only the survey settles it. We publish them so you can sanity-check anyone else's figure before you agree to it.
| Material / option | Typical cost | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Close-board fencing | £120–£200 /m run | Including concrete posts and gravel boards |
| Garden wall (brick/block) | £200–£400 /m run | Up to 1.2m high, includes foundations |
| Retaining wall | £300–£600 /m run | Engineered drainage solution, height-dependent |
Scope of works
Fencing & Walls — what's included
- Pressure-treated timber fencing in multiple styles
- Close-board, featherboard, and panel fencing
- Acoustic panels for road-facing boundaries
- Garden walls in brick, stone, and rendered blockwork
- Retaining walls with drainage behind the face
- Gate and entrance pillar construction
- Pergola, trellis, and screen structures
- Post and rail fencing for larger plots
Fencing & Walls in Sunninghill FAQs
In Sunninghill, specifically.
Close-board on concrete posts, generally taller where the plot is small enough that the neighbouring boundary is only a few metres away. On the more compact gardens near newer developments a taller, solid run does more privacy work per metre than trying to spread the same height across a wider boundary, and concrete posts hold that line without leaning inward over time.
Yes, and on the Victorian and Edwardian houses around the High Street matching the facing brick and coping to what is already there is usually the point of the job. We source as close a match as the original brick allows, and where an exact match is not realistic we propose a complementary brick rather than a wall that reads as an obvious repair.
Some do, more often on the older plots around the High Street where the ground has had longer to settle unevenly than on the flatter, more recently levelled gardens near newer developments. Where a genuine level change needs holding back we design the drainage behind the wall face in from the start, because on this ground trapped water is what pushes a retaining wall out of true.
Usually not for a standard rear or side boundary within permitted development limits, but a small number of older plots near the High Street have mature trees under a preservation order close to the boundary line, which can change where a wall or fence post is actually allowed to go. We check for one at survey before any groundworks are agreed.
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