Fencing in Cranfield
Fencing for Cranfield's village core and growing estates, with posts and gravel boards built for its heavy, poorly drained clay.
Closeboard timber fencing in Cranfield 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. Both are guide prices. The most important local factor is the heavy, poorly drained boulder clay, which keeps ground wet, so timber must be kept off the soil and posts must not rot.
- Closeboard, fitted
- £80–£100 per metre
- Planning
- Not needed up to 2m (1m by a road)
- Ground
- Heavy, poorly drained boulder clay
- 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 Cranfield
Cranfield has grown a long way beyond its older core along High Street and Court Road, with estates that took the village from about 4,900 people in 2001 to around 6,000 by 2018. Many of those homes still have the fencing they were built with, and estate panels on timber posts tend to fail at the base first. Replacing a whole garden in one go gives matching heights and a fence that will last.
For these gardens we offer closeboard timber on concrete posts with gravel boards, or composite and aluminium slatted fencing on aluminium posts, with gates and screens to match. The free design visit covers every run: we measure, check how wet the ground is along each boundary, and look for any ditch or water route that must be kept clear. Removal of the old estate fence is priced on site, and the written price that follows is fixed.
What makes Cranfield different
Cranfield sits on a plateau of heavy chalky boulder clay over Oxford Clay. It is poorly drained, and in June 2016 surface water affected around 80 properties, according to Central Bedfordshire Council's flood investigation. For fencing, wet clay is what rots timber posts and the bottom of panels, so we use concrete or aluminium posts and gravel boards as standard. With no conservation area or Article 4 direction, normal permitted development applies unless your estate's planning permission removed it.
A typical Cranfield job is an estate semi or detached house where the original fence has leaned or rotted at ground level. We take out the old posts, set concrete posts, fit gravel boards and closeboard along the sides and back, and add a side gate. Some owners choose slatted aluminium for the run nearest the patio.
Sources: Central Bedfordshire flood investigation, June 2016.
Permissions and checks in Cranfield
- 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. 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 Cranfield
- Concrete or aluminium posts that will not rot in wet clay
- Gravel boards as standard on boulder clay
- Estate planning conditions checked for front boundaries
- 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 Cranfield: questions
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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 Cranfield
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.