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A 2.3 metre fence across a Timaru street frontage can be entirely exempt from building consent and still not be allowed. Timaru District Council treats fences and walls less than 2.5 metres high as exempt building work, while the Timaru District Plan separately caps road boundary fences at a maximum height of 2 metres in its residential zones. Group One New Zealand designs, manufactures and installs safety and palisade fencing for Timaru sites, with crews driving down from the Islington base in Christchurch. Sydney Chappell founded the New Zealand company in 2026. Tell us the frontage and the height you have in mind and we will work out which rule bites before anyone talks about price.
Exempt from consent is not the same as permitted
The two rules sit in different documents and do different jobs, which is why they catch people out.
Building consent is the first. Under the Council’s exempt building work list, fences or walls less than 2.5 metres high do not need one. Residential swimming pool fencing is expressly excluded from that exemption and does need a building consent, submitted through the Simpli portal.
The District Plan is the second, and it is where a street-front fence runs into trouble. Part D2 of the plan states that road boundary fences shall be a maximum height of 2 metres in the residential zones. The Council’s own land use consent guidance covers the situation directly: an activity can be permitted, but the size or scale of it breaches a performance standard, and land use consent is then required as well.
So on a residential road frontage you have a 2 metre planning limit sitting under a 2.5 metre consent threshold. A fence between the two is exempt building work and a consent application at the same time. Behind the frontage, on a side or rear boundary, the picture changes again.
Rules get updated. Confirm the current position with Timaru District Council for your address before work starts, and we build to what they allow.
Phone us on 027 424 0600, 7am to 3pm Monday to Friday. A crew comes down, measures the site and puts a written quote together from what is actually on the ground.
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Industries We Serve
We proudly serve clients across a range of sectors, including:
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Steel that survives the sea air
Timaru sits exposed on the coast, and BRANZ notes that sea salt in coastal atmospheres significantly increases corrosion of metals used in construction. That is not a small footnote on a perimeter fence with hundreds of metres of steel in it. It is why hot-dip galvanised and powder-coated steel are the local default rather than a premium option.
Hot-dip galvanising after fabrication coats the inside of each section as well as the outside, which is where a coastal fence gives up first. Powder coat goes over the top for colour and a second barrier. We work in steel, aluminium and stainless steel, and on a Timaru perimeter the finish specification deserves as much thought as the height.
Wind is the other coastal factor. Winters here are short, cold and windy. A palisade run lets air through where a solid panel takes the full load, which feeds straight back into post size, post spacing and how deep the footings sit.
Which product your site actually needs
Steel palisade is the hard perimeter: vertical pales bolted to horizontal rails on concreted posts, rolled to a profile that resists climbing, spaced so a yard stays visible from the road. Pale tops are specified rounded where the fence faces a footpath, or pointed where the brief calls for it. It is the usual answer around processing plants, transport yards and utility compounds.
358 anti-climb mesh is the alternative specified across New Zealand where the fence has to look less industrial. The aperture is too tight to take a foothold, and the mesh reads as nearly transparent from a short distance.
Safety barriers are a separate product answering a separate risk: people falling rather than people entering. Loading dock edges, mezzanines and the tops of retaining walls are the usual candidates.
Hired panels, or a fence that stays put
Safety fencing means two unrelated things and the terms get used interchangeably. One is temporary: mesh panels on portable feet, hired by the week to close off a construction zone, an excavation or an event, and collected when the job ends. The other is permanent, set in concrete and specified to stand for decades. Group One New Zealand builds the permanent kind, designed and made for one site and installed to stay there.
Working a site 157 km from the workshop
Timaru is about 157 km southwest of Christchurch, so the visit is a planned trip rather than a drop-in, and the process is built around that. Someone comes out first with a tape measure and looks at the boundary, the ground, the access for a post-hole borer and where gates need to land. That single visit has to capture everything, so it is thorough.
From there: design, manufacture, installation. Design fixes heights, pale spacing, gate swings and hardware against the rules that apply to your zone and frontage. Manufacture happens before the install crew travels. Installation is posts, concrete, rails and pales, then hanging and adjusting gates until they run true.
We guarantee all the work we do, with a full after-sales service behind it. Distance does not change that.
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What the quote is built from
Pricing is on quote. A per-metre rate means very little on a real boundary, because these are what actually move a fencing price:
- Perimeter length, and the corners and level changes along it
- Finished height, which drives post size, footing depth and the consent question
- Ground conditions and access along the fence line
- Gates: pedestrian or vehicle, swing or slide, manual or automated
- Finish specification, which on a coastal site is a cost decision with a lifespan attached
A run along a flat industrial boundary at Washdyke and a run across a sloping residential frontage are not the same job, whatever the tape measure says.
Group One New Zealand at the southern end of the run
Timaru is as far south as the crews go, and the trip down is long enough that we would rather settle the finish specification properly than come back to it. On this coast that means hot-dip galvanising after fabrication, powder coat over the top where colour matters, and stainless fixings on anything near the port. Sydney Chappell founded Group One New Zealand in 2026. It is a small team, and because the same people design, make and install the fence, the coating schedule is written on the drawing rather than decided by whoever happens to be holding the spanner. Washdyke yards and the processing plants behind the export trade are where most of the length goes, and salt does not care what the consent said. Everything is fabricated at Islington in Christchurch before it is loaded. The quarter century attached to the group name was earned across the Tasman, stated by the company as: “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 page covers the whole range.
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Around the port, at Washdyke and across the processing and engineering sites that sit behind roughly $1.1 billion in annual exports, most perimeters are working assets rather than decoration. Ours are built to be treated that way.
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 the run faces a road. Group One New Zealand, Unit 1, 37 Foremans Road, Islington, Christchurch 8042. NZBN 9429053752833.
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Common questions from South Canterbury sites
Can I build a fence entirely on my own side of the boundary?
Yes, and if it sits wholly within your land it is your fence and your cost. The cost-sharing provisions of the Fencing Act 1978 apply to a fence on the shared boundary, which is a different situation with a written notice process attached.
What are the pros and cons of palisade fencing?
For: hard to climb, long-lived in galvanised steel, and it keeps a site visible rather than screening it. Against: it looks industrial, and it costs more than a wire or timber boundary. On a coastal site the durability side of that ledger carries more weight than it does inland.
Does my neighbour have to pay half?
Under the Fencing Act 1978 adjoining owners share the cost of an adequate boundary fence, following written notice served before work starts. The Council is not part of that process.
Our pool fence is under 2.5 metres. Are we exempt?
No. Timaru District Council excludes residential swimming pool fencing from the exemption, and the building consent goes in through the Simpli portal.
What is the most cost-effective fence?
It depends entirely on what the fence has to do. For a boundary that only marks a line, steel palisade is over-specified. For a yard holding plant, stock or product, the cheapest fence is the one you do not replace or repair, which is where hot-dip galvanising earns its keep in this climate.
What does palisade fencing cost per metre in Timaru?
We do not publish a rate. Length, height, ground, gates and finish all move it, and the honest number comes after the site visit.
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