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Before the first post hole, find the pegs. Ashburton District Council’s fencing advice starts exactly there: locate the boundary pegs or have the boundary surveyed before you build, because a fence in the wrong place may have to be moved later. Height is the next decision, and it has two answers here, since you can build to 2.5 metres from natural ground level while the Council recommends talking to its Planning Department about a resource consent for anything over 2 metres. Group One New Zealand designs, manufactures and installs safety and palisade fencing across Ashburton, with crews travelling down from the Islington base in Christchurch. Sydney Chappell started the New Zealand company in 2026. Send us the boundary and we will come and look at it.
What Ashburton District Council says about height
The Council’s position is clear and worth reading in its own terms. You can build a fence up to 2.5 metres in height measured from natural ground level. Above 2 metres, the Council recommends a conversation with the Planning Department about whether a resource consent is required. That gap between 2 and 2.5 metres is not a grey area so much as a phone call, and it is a short one.
Swimming pool fencing is regulated separately and enforced by the Council, and it sits outside any general fence height allowance. That applies everywhere in New Zealand, not just here.
Council requirements change over time. Confirm the current position with Ashburton District Council before work starts, and we build to what they allow.
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Putting a fence on top of a retaining wall
This is the detail Ashburton spells out and most councils leave you to work out for yourself, and it comes up constantly on sloping rural and lifestyle sites where a bank has already been cut and walled.
Two tests apply:
- A building consent is required where the retaining wall is more than 1.5 metres high and the fence on top of it is more than 2.5 metres high
- If the fence and the retaining wall are joined, a building consent is required regardless
Joined is the word that catches people. A fence bolted through the wall head, or posts cast into the wall itself, is a different structure from a fence with independent footings set behind the wall. Which of the two you end up with is a design decision, and it is one worth making deliberately at the quoting stage rather than discovering on the day.
Phone us on 027 424 0600, 7am to 3pm Monday to Friday. A crew travels down to walk the boundary, take levels where a wall is involved, and put a written quote together.
Perimeters for farms, lifestyle blocks and rural-commercial yards
Primary industries make up 27.0% of this district’s GDP against 6.2% nationally, and the fencing work reflects it. Most of what we are asked for around Ashburton is a working perimeter: a machinery yard, a chemical or fertiliser store, a rural-commercial frontage, a lifestyle-block entrance that has to look presentable and still keep stock and vehicles where they belong.
Steel palisade suits that brief. Vertical pales bolt to horizontal rails on posts set in concrete, the rolled pale profile resists climbing, and the spacing keeps a yard visible from the road rather than hidden behind a wall. Pale tops are specified rounded where the fence faces a public footpath, or pointed where the site calls for it.
358 anti-climb mesh is the other perimeter specified in New Zealand, with an aperture too tight to take a foothold and a look that reads as far less industrial from a distance.
Safety barriers answer something different again: protecting people from a fall rather than securing a boundary. Loading areas, silo platforms and the top of a cut bank all qualify.
Two things called safety fencing
The phrase covers two products with almost nothing in common. One is temporary: mesh panels on portable feet, hired by the week around a build, a trench or an event, then taken away. The other is permanent, set in concrete and expected to outlast the plant it protects. Group One New Zealand builds the permanent kind, designed and manufactured for a single site and installed to stay there.
Frost, nor’west gales and what steel needs
Canterbury’s strongest winds come from the north-west, hard enough historically to flatten tree plantations and damage buildings, and winter southerlies bring hard frosts across the plains. A fence out here works for its living.
Wind decides post size, post spacing and footing depth. Palisade handles it better than a solid panel because air passes through the gaps instead of pushing the whole run over. Frost decides the digging and the pour.
We work in steel, aluminium and stainless steel. Hot-dip galvanising after fabrication is what gives a rural perimeter its decades, because it coats the inside of every section as well as the outside. Powder coat goes over the top where colour matters.
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Design, manufacture, installation
Everything starts with someone standing on the boundary with a tape measure, looking at ground conditions, borer access and where gates need to swing or slide. Design turns that into heights, pale spacing, gate hardware and, where a retaining wall is in play, whether the fence ties into it or stands clear.
Manufacture happens off site. Installation is posts, concrete, rails and pales, then gates hung and adjusted until they run properly on their own weight.
We guarantee all the work we do, backed by a full after-sales service.
What moves the price
Pricing is on quote. The variables that actually shift a fencing number:
- Perimeter length, corners, and how much the ground rises and falls along it
- Finished height, which drives post size, footing depth and the consent question
- Whether a retaining wall is involved, and whether the fence joins it
- Ground conditions and access for machinery along the line
- Gates: pedestrian or vehicle, swing or slide, manual or automated
- Finish: galvanised only, or galvanised and powder coated
A 30 metre run is a different price on flat, open paddock ground than it is stepping down a bank behind a wall. That is why the visit comes before the number.
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Who makes the fence: Group One New Zealand
Design, manufacture and installation are one job here rather than three separate contracts, which is why a fence sitting on a retaining wall gets settled at the drawing stage instead of being discovered by an installer with a borer already running. Farm, lifestyle-block and rural-commercial perimeters are long, and a specification error repeats itself a hundred times down a line before anyone notices. Sydney Chappell started the New Zealand company in 2026 and keeps it deliberately small. Steel is cut, welded and galvanised at Islington in Christchurch, then trucked down the plains finished, so the crew arriving at your boundary pegs has already handled every section going into the ground. That also means the Council conversation about height and consent belongs in the quote, not in a phone call afterwards. Anything older than 2026 belongs to the Australian side of the group, which the company states plainly: “Although Group 1 Line Marking has just started here in New Zealand, as a group we have been operating in Australia for almost 25 years.” The rest of the range sits on the page.
Book a site visit
Farm and lifestyle-block boundaries rarely run flat and rarely run straight, which is the whole reason we quote after seeing them rather than before.
Phone us on 027 424 0600 or email info@groupone.co.nz, 7am to 3pm Monday to Friday. Have the site address, a rough boundary length, the height you want, and whether a retaining wall or bank is part of the picture. Group One New Zealand, Unit 1, 37 Foremans Road, Islington, Christchurch 8042. NZBN 9429053752833.
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- Safety and Palisade Fencing Amberley
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- Safety and Palisade Fencing Methven
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- Safety and Palisade Fencing Rolleston
- Safety and Palisade Fencing Timaru
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Questions from mid Canterbury property owners
Is steel palisade fencing worth it?
On a boundary that only marks a line, no. On a yard holding machinery, stock or product, it usually pays for itself in what does not need replacing. Galvanised steel outlasts timber by a long way in this climate, and there is nothing to rot at the ground line.
Does my neighbour have to pay for half the fence?
Under the Fencing Act 1978 adjoining owners share the cost of an adequate boundary fence, after written notice is served before work starts. That is between the two of you, not something the Council administers. Finding the pegs first saves a lot of that conversation going sideways.
What is the legal fence height between neighbours?
There is no single height in the Act. What the Act asks is whether the fence is adequate for the two properties. The consent triggers are separate: 2.5 metres from natural ground level here, with the Council recommending a planning conversation above 2 metres.
Can a neighbour paint their side of the fence?
A boundary fence built under the Fencing Act is a shared asset, so alterations are a matter for agreement between owners. It rarely comes up on a powder-coated steel fence, since the colour is part of the finish rather than a coat applied over it.
How much would a 30 metre fence cost?
It depends on height, ground, gates and finish, so there is no rate we would put in print. Thirty metres of 1.8 metre palisade across level ground and thirty metres stepping down a bank are different jobs.
Do I need a consent for a fence on my retaining wall?
If the wall is over 1.5 metres and the fence over 2.5 metres, yes. If the fence and wall are joined, yes regardless. Both are worth checking with the Council for your specific wall.
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