Fencing in Gloucester
We install and repair garden fencing across Gloucester, from the terraced streets of Barton and Tredworth to the estates at Quedgeley and Kingsway. Gloucester City Council is the planning authority for the city itself, though GL2 and GL3 reach past the boundary. Most of the city sits on Severn Vale Lias clay, and that clay decides how a post hole drains and how a post fails.
The houses and gardens in Gloucester
Gloucester's housing falls into four eras, and each fences differently. Georgian and Victorian terraces fill the inner streets at Barton and Tredworth, Kingsholm and the Denmark Road area, where back gardens are narrow, brick-walled and often reachable only through the house. Municipal estates are the next layer: the council compulsorily purchased land at Coney Hill in 1930 and built 258 houses between 1931 and 1933, 474 by 1939. Matson began in 1951 and runs to roughly 1,500 homes, Podsmead to about 500 from 1955. The 1935 boundary extension brought Wotton, Coney Hill, Matson, Lower Tuffley and Podsmead inside the city. Abbeymead and Abbeydale came late in the century, and Quedgeley and Kingsway are post-1980. Timber does the boundary work across the estates.
Digging in Gloucester: the practical bit
Most Gloucester gardens sit on Charmouth Mudstone, the Lias clay that floors the Severn Vale. BGS calls these mudstones heavy clay soils prone to wetness. In winter a hole in it fills with water and keeps it. Gravel dropped under the post turns the hole into a sump. By August the same ground sets hard enough to stop a spade. Where the Severn terraces run, the spoil turns to sand and rounded pebbles and the sides of the hole slump as you dig. Near the Docks and old industrial land, expect alluvium and likely made ground: brick, ash and slab that stops a hole short. Access is the other constraint. Plenty of terraces off Barton Street have no side gate, so panels and spoil go through the house.
The boundaries you already have
Gloucester is a brick city. The Victorian and Edwardian streets carry brick garden walls, and the conservation areas at Kingsholm, Southgate Street and London Road keep low brick or rendered fronts with iron railings. Cotswold stone belongs to the escarpment, so there is little of it inside the city. Across the estates at Coney Hill, Matson, Podsmead, Abbeymead, Quedgeley and Kingsway, timber does the work: close-board and lap panels. That mix creates three standard jobs: replacing lap panels blown out of concrete slotted posts, taking down a leaning brick wall and fencing the line instead, and matching a new run to a neighbour's older one.
Everywhere we cover in Gloucester
Gloucester Docks · Kingsholm · Longlevens · Barnwood and Hucclecote · Abbeymead and Abbeydale · Tuffley and Podsmead · Quedgeley and Kingsway
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Fencing services in Gloucester
Every service we offer is available across Gloucester, at the same guide prices we publish everywhere.
Closeboard fencing
Feather-edge boards built board by board onto concrete or timber posts, so the fence holds its line and single boards can be replaced.
Fence repair
Snapped posts and storm-blown panels put right across Cheltenham, with an honest read on whether repairing beats replacing.
Panel replacement
Failed panels swapped into your existing posts, matched to the height of the run, with the old panels taken away on the day.
Composite fencing
Wood-plastic composite panels on aluminium posts, fitted so your boundary needs a wash down instead of re-staining every other spring.
Garden gates
Side gates and driveway pairs, hung on oversized posts set in concrete, so the leaf keeps its swing and the latch still catches.
Decking
Timber and composite decking built on a sub-frame that drains and breathes, so the deck stays solid underfoot years after it is laid.
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