PVC Fencing
New Farm.
4005
Riverside Brisbane suburb where pre-1947 cottages share boundaries with newer apartment blocks, and where character protection shapes what you can build out the front.
New Farm
New Farm sits on a low flat bend of the Brisbane River about two kilometres northeast of the CBD, and the housing stock reflects two overlapping waves: tightly grouped pre-war workers' cottages and Queenslanders on the older streets, then a layer of medium-rise apartment infill from the 1990s onwards. Much of the suburb falls inside the Brisbane City Plan 2014 Traditional Building Character Overlay (the planning instrument that replaced the older Demolition Control Precinct), which means front fences here are not a free choice. They have to read as part of the pre-1947 streetscape. PVC pickets in the Henley range cover that brief without the recurring repaint cycle that a timber picket in this humidity will demand, and they hold their white against the river-reflected glare that yellows lesser plastics within a decade.
New Farm streetscape
How New Farm fences.
Housing stock
New Farm's residential streets are dominated by Queenslanders on stumps, brick-and-tile interwar cottages, and Federation-era workers' housing on lots that often sit between 300 and 500 square metres. Many of those original homes have been renovated underneath rather than out, which leaves the side-boundary footprint intact and the dividing fences sitting on tight clearances of a metre or less between house and boundary.
Apartment boundaries
Three- and four-storey complexes along Brunswick Street, Merthyr Road, and the river side mean a boundary fence often has to interface with a body corporate's common-property landscaping rather than another freestanding house. That changes who you negotiate the fence line with, and what it has to look like from both sides.
The common job
A frequent scenario is a heritage cottage replacing a sagging timber paling fence shared with a neighbouring apartment block, so a single PVC run has to look right from a private courtyard on one side and a shared garden on the other. The Ascot privacy panel presents the same finished face both ways and removes the maintenance dispute timber inevitably starts between a private owner and a body corporate.
River salt-load
Rear boundaries closer to the river also have to handle the salt-load that comes off tidal water. PVC is impervious to it, where Colorbond corrodes at the cut edges.
PVC fencing considerations for New Farm
Approvals & heights
Brisbane City Council allows side and rear dividing fences up to 1.8 metres without development approval. Anything above 2 metres needs a building certifier's sign-off under the Queensland Building Act 1975.
Cost-sharing
Cost-sharing and notice requirements between neighbours are governed by the Queensland Neighbourhood Disputes (Dividing Fences and Trees) Act 2011, which superseded the older Dividing Fences Act 1953.
Front-fence character rules
Front fences on character-overlay lots are the constraint that catches New Farm owners out. Council's Traditional Building Character (Design) Overlay Code asks for street-facing fencing that is low, transparent, and reads as part of the traditional streetscape. A solid 1.8m privacy panel out the front will fail that test; a 1.2m white Henley picket usually passes because it matches the cottage-and-picket vocabulary the overlay protects. The Pointed Cap variant tracks closest to a late-Victorian Queenslander, while the Flat Cap reads more interwar.
Pool safety
Pool fencing across the suburb still has to meet AS 1926.1-2012 and the QLD Pool Safety Standard regardless of overlay status. The 100mm climbable-gap rule and the 900mm non-climbable zone apply to every backyard pool, from a Queenslander to a fifth-floor apartment terrace. The Ascot full privacy panel can serve as a pool barrier provided the non-climbable zone is preserved around any landscaping or furniture set adjacent to it.
The Collection
Five ranges, delivered to New Farm.
Every PVC fencing range is available in New Farm — supply only, or supply and install. Every price includes GST.
Henley
Picket Fencing
From $166.54 per set
From $166.54 per set
Oxford
Semi-Privacy Fencing
From $266.46 per set
From $266.46 per set
Eton
Closed-Top Fencing
From $273.11 per set
From $273.11 per set
Ascot
Full Privacy Fencing
From $254.54 per set
From $254.54 per set
Cotswold
Horse & Farm Fencing
From $92.05 per set
From $92.05 per set
Delivery
Delivered to New Farm.
We deliver PVC fencing to New Farm and every other Brisbane suburb. Each order is palletised for safe transit and needs someone on site to receive it.
- Estimated delivery
- 3-5 business days metro, 5-7 days outer suburbs
Pricing
Pricing for New Farm.
Prices are identical across every Brisbane suburb — there is no location surcharge for New Farm. What you see online is what you pay, GST included.
Questions
PVC fencing New Farm, answered.
- My New Farm house is in the Traditional Building Character Overlay. What front fence is allowed?
- The overlay does not list specific fence dimensions, but the Traditional Building Character (Design) Overlay Code requires fencing visible from the street to be low and transparent and to complement the traditional pre-1947 streetscape. In practice that means a picket-style fence, typically around 1.2 metres high, painted white or in a heritage colour, with vertical pickets and visible gaps. The Henley range was specified with exactly this kind of streetscape in mind. Solid privacy panels at the front boundary will usually fail the overlay test. Side and rear boundaries are not restricted by the overlay in the same way and can run to 1.8 metres without approval.
- We share a fence line with an apartment block. Who pays, and what can we install?
- Under the Neighbourhood Disputes (Dividing Fences and Trees) Act 2011 the cost of a sufficient dividing fence is shared between adjoining owners. When one side is a body corporate, the body corporate is the relevant adjoining owner, not the individual tenants. You serve a Notice to Contribute on the body corporate's nominated representative with quotes. PVC suits this situation because both faces look identical, which removes the long-running argument about which side gets the rail face and which gets the smooth face. Get the body corporate's written agreement before ordering, because a unilateral install gives them grounds to refuse cost-sharing.
- Does the river-reflected sun on the New Farm side discolour PVC fencing faster?
- Reflected UV from the water adds load on top of direct sun, and cheaper PVC formulations can yellow noticeably within five to ten years under that combination. The PVC we supply is UV-stabilised for Australian conditions and tested for the long-term exposure typical of riverfront and waterfront installations. White PVC is the most colourfast and is what we recommend for properties on the river-facing streets such as New Farm Park, Sydney Street, and Welsby Street, where reflected glare runs long hours in summer. The warranty covers UV degradation, not just defects, so colour stability is contractually backed not just a marketing claim.
- Our New Farm cottage is on stumps and the boundary slopes. Can PVC step down cleanly?
- Yes. The fence is installed in panel-width modules (2.44 metres for the Ascot, Oxford, and Eton ranges; 2.413 metres for the Henley picket), and each module steps independently. The installer drops each subsequent panel to follow the grade, so a moderate slope reads as a series of clean stepped panels rather than a raked or warped line. This is the same detail Council expects on character lots where retaining and ground levels frequently shift between the front setback and the rear boundary. Stepping also avoids the trapped-water condition that rots timber paling at the bottom rail on sloped runs.
- Will a PVC fence damage the root zone of a heritage tree on the boundary?
- Post holes for PVC fencing are typically 300mm wide and 600mm deep at 2.44m centres, which is less intrusive than the continuous concrete strip used under masonry fencing. Where a protected or significant tree sits on or near the boundary, the installer hand-digs post holes rather than augering through structural roots. If the tree is listed on the Council's Significant Landscape Tree overlay, you need a separate clearing approval before any post hole within the root protection zone. We can mark the proposed post positions on a survey and have an arborist sight them before excavation.
Nearby
Nearby in Brisbane.
- Same Traditional Building Character Overlay rules apply on the ridges above New Farm in Paddington
- Comparable workers'-cottage stock across the river on the Kurilpa peninsula in West End
- Tight inner-city blocks with similar boundary clearances south of the river in Woolloongabba
- Larger pre-war lots and grander character homes a few kilometres north in Clayfield
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