Eight fencing services. One coastal spec.

The Margate picture in one page

What defines the workload here.

Thanet District Council covers Margate and the surrounding villages. Standard fence permitted-development rules apply outside conservation zones: 2 metres to the rear and side, 1 metre to a front boundary onto a highway. Margate Old Town conservation area, most of the seafront frontages, and a scatter of listed cottages catch additional restrictions - Article 4 directions on some streetscape mean a small change that would be permitted elsewhere needs a full application here.

Outside the conservation zones the workload is a straightforward mix. Cliftonville HMO and holiday-let boundaries where 6ft closeboard is the standard ask. Palm Bay long garden runs with chalk-substrate post holes. Westbrook and Garlinge suburban standard panel or closeboard. Birchington bungalow-belt low picket and gate work. The unifying feature is the salt easterly, which is why UC4 treatment is not optional on any coastal run.

Post concrete on Thanet needs an honest word. The chalk substrate that runs under most of CT9 is a good post bed once you are through the topsoil, but at Palm Bay and above the cliffs it can be surprisingly close to the surface, and post depth changes across a single garden. I dig to firm bearing, not to a spec sheet.