Fencing in Olney
Fencing for Olney's limestone town centre and newer edge-of-town estates, with listed buildings and conservation rules checked first.
Closeboard timber fencing in Olney 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. These are guide prices. The key local check is listing: Olney has 119 listed buildings, and a fence, wall or gate at a listed building needs consent.
- Closeboard, fitted
- £80–£100 per metre
- Planning
- Not needed up to 2m (1m by a road)
- Ground
- Limestone, mostly free-draining
- 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 Olney
Olney is a limestone market town with 119 listed buildings, a long conservation area through the centre and newer estates around the edge, where the 2017 neighbourhood plan allocated around 300 more homes. Fencing work splits along the same lines. On the estates, it is usually a straightforward replacement of rear and side panels that have reached the end of their life; in the centre, it means checking the building's status carefully before choosing any material at all.
We fit closeboard timber on concrete posts with gravel boards, or composite and aluminium slatted fencing on aluminium posts, finished with matching gates and screens. Our free design visit covers measuring up, seeing what is coming out and confirming your address's planning position, including whether the house is listed. The old fence removal is priced at that stage, and the quote you receive in writing afterwards is a fixed price rather than an estimate.
What makes Olney different
Olney's Article 4 direction removes permitted development for extensions, alterations, porches and painting outside walls, but boundary walls are not covered, so on an unlisted house in the conservation area a fence within normal height limits is not caught by it. Listed buildings still need consent. The town sits on Great Oolite limestone, which generally drains better than Milton Keynes clay, though clay bands and the Ouse flood plain change that locally. Limestone can mean stony digging, which we allow for on the visit.
A typical Olney job is a house on one of the edge-of-town estates with a rear garden enclosed by worn panels on timber posts. Out come the old posts; in go concrete ones through whatever limestone we hit, then gravel boards and closeboard at a matching height, with a side gate to finish. Older town-centre houses more often want a single screen or gate.
Sources: Milton Keynes Article 4 directions (Olney) · Olney Conservation Area map.
Permissions and checks in Olney
- 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 Olney 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. Milton Keynes City Council: tree protection
- 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 Olney
- Listed building status checked before design
- Stony limestone digging allowed for in the plan
- Article 4 scope confirmed for your house
- 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 Olney: 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 Olney
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.