Wentworth · GU25 · Surrey
Fencing & Walls in Wentworth.
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Fencing & Walls
Wentworth, GU25
Close-board fencing
£120–£200 /m run
Including concrete posts and gravel boards
Wentworth
Fencing & Walls in Wentworth, Surrey
What changes here.
Boundary work on the Wentworth Estate answers to the estate's own design guidance before it answers to anything else, and that guidance is more specific than most councils': open-design security fencing such as palisade is generally acceptable, provided it is dark green or black and no taller than 2 metres, with evergreen planting to screen it from the road or neighbouring gardens. Electronic gates and their piers are usually allowed too, set well back from the carriageway rather than hard against it. Underneath that sits an older covenant on plot boundaries themselves — traditionally a post-and-wire fence no higher than 4ft 6in with an evergreen hedge or beech grown up beside it, the hedge itself capped at 7ft without the neighbouring owner's written consent. We design every boundary here against both layers rather than one.
Fencing & Walls ground conditions in Wentworth
Retaining and garden walls on Wentworth's Bagshot sand need the same engineered drainage behind them we build in everywhere the ground is this free-draining — water moving through sandy soil above a clay pocket will find the back of a wall face if there is nowhere else for it to go, and that pressure is what pushes a wall out of true within a couple of seasons. Boundary fence posts do better set in concrete than driven into the estate's sandy topsoil for the same reason: a post that loses its footing loses its line long before the timber above it has worn out. Where a new fence or gate sits close to a mature tree, root protection is surveyed in exactly the way it would be for any other hard landscaping on the plot.
Planning and permissions in Wentworth
A fence up to 2m at the rear of most Runnymede properties is permitted development in council terms, but the estate's own design guidance narrows what is actually acceptable well before that limit is reached — security fencing needs an open design, a dark green or black finish, and evergreen screening, and a taller, solid boundary is unlikely to clear the Roads Committee even where the council would allow it. Electronic gates and piers are generally approved when they sit well back from the road rather than on the boundary line. We check both the council position and the estate's guidance at survey and design the fence, gate or wall to the tighter of the two rather than finding out which one applies after the posts are ordered.
Pricing guide
Fencing & Walls costs in Wentworth.
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 Wentworth FAQs
In Wentworth, specifically.
Open-design security fencing such as palisade is generally acceptable to the Roads Committee provided it is dark green or black, no taller than 2 metres, and screened with evergreen planting from the road or neighbouring gardens. A close-board panel fence of the kind we would specify elsewhere is far less likely to be approved here, so the estate's guidance shapes the design before cost or style preference does.
Yes, and it is one of the more common requests here. Electronic gates and their piers are generally allowed provided they sit well back from the private road rather than hard against it, which also gives visiting vehicles somewhere to wait off the carriageway while the gate opens — something the Roads Committee cares about as much as the gate's appearance.
Under the estate's older boundary covenant, a hedge grown up beside a post-and-wire fence is capped at 7 feet without the written consent of the adjoining owner, and the fence itself at 4ft 6in. We design new boundary planting to those limits by default and flag it clearly where a taller screen would need a neighbour's agreement first.
Yes, effectively always. The estate's Bagshot sand drains fast down to the clay pockets beneath it, and water reaching a wall face with nowhere to go is the main cause of a retaining wall leaning or cracking within a few years. Every wall of any height we build here gets a drainage path behind it before the first course goes down.
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