Fencing in Aspley Guise
Fencing for Aspley Guise gardens, planned around the village's listed houses, ironstone and brick walls, and holly hedges.
Closeboard timber fencing in Aspley Guise typically costs £80–£100 per metre supplied and fitted on concrete posts, and composite and aluminium slatted fencing starts from about £240 per metre fitted at 1.8m high, as guide prices. The biggest local consideration is heritage: many houses are listed and need consent, and the conservation area appraisal favours keeping ironstone and brick boundary walls and hedges.
- Closeboard, fitted
- £80–£100 per metre
- Planning
- Not needed up to 2m (1m by a road)
- Ground
- Free-draining Greensand on a slope
- Guarantee
- 5 years, in writing
Guide prices from 2026 online price guides, at the higher end; your fixed price comes in writing after the free design visit. Planning rules checked October 2026.
Fencing in Aspley Guise
Aspley Guise is a historic Greensand village of mainly 18th and early 19th-century houses, many early Georgian and listed, in red brick with some ironstone, timber frame and thatch. Its street boundaries are a big part of its character: holly hedges line Woburn Lane, and brick walls hold the street line on West Hill. A new fence here is usually a rear or side boundary that sits behind those features rather than replacing them.
Where a fence is the right answer, we fit closeboard timber on concrete posts with gravel boards, or composite and aluminium slatted fencing on aluminium posts, with gates and screens to suit. The free design visit is a chance to look at your existing walls and hedges together and agree where a fence genuinely belongs and where it would not. We price taking out any old fencing at the same time, and confirm a fixed price in writing afterwards.
What makes Aspley Guise different
The village is in Central Bedfordshire, and the Aspley Guise Conservation Area appraisal of 2008 favours keeping ironstone and brick boundary walls and hedges. There is no Article 4 direction here, but listed buildings need consent for a fence. Underneath, the Woburn Sands sandstone drains freely, yet the village slopes towards the Ouse valley and run-off from above needs handling. Surface water is the documented risk: in June 2016, 16 properties were affected on Bedford Road, The Square and West Hill.
A typical Aspley Guise job is an older house where a rear or side boundary has worn-out panels behind a hedge or alongside an old wall. We remove the fence, set concrete posts clear of hedge roots and wall footings, fit gravel boards and closeboard, and finish the ends neatly against the masonry. Slatted screens suit newer homes on the edge of the village.
Sources: Aspley Guise Conservation Area appraisal · Central Bedfordshire flood investigation, June 2016.
Permissions and checks in Aspley Guise
- Step 1A fence, wall or gate is normally permitted development up to 2m high, or 1m where it sits next to a road or footpath used by vehicles. Listed buildings need consent, and some estates have planning conditions on front boundaries. Listed buildings and conservation areas in Aspley Guise have tighter rules, so we check your address before anything is designed. Planning Portal: fences, gates and walls
- Step 2Trees in a conservation area need six weeks’ written notice before any work, and trees with a Tree Preservation Order need consent — both are free. Central Bedfordshire Council: trees in conservation areas
- Step 3We check the ground and the planning position at the free design visit and give you one fixed written price.
Rules checked October 2026.
What you get in Aspley Guise
- Listed building consent checked before design
- Ironstone and brick walls and hedges kept in place
- Gravel boards against run-off on sloping plots
- Concrete or aluminium posts set in concrete at the right depth
- Gravel boards so timber never sits in the soil
- Composite and aluminium slatted panels that never need painting
The specification
- Old fence taken down and away
- Post holes dug to depth and posts set in concrete
- Gravel boards fitted along the run
- Panels or boards fixed and capped
- Gates hung and latched
- Five year written guarantee, transferable if you sell
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Fencing in Aspley Guise: questions
What does fencing cost in Aspley Guise?
My house is listed. Can I still put up a fence?
Can you fence behind an existing hedge?
Water comes down my garden from higher ground. Will that affect a fence?
What fencing cost
Our fencing cost guide breaks the price down: what is included, what changes it and what to check in any quote.
Free design visits across Aspley Guise
We measure up, check the ground, talk it through and send a written proposal with the build-up, the programme and one whole price. No pressure and no follow-up sales calls.