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Kayleigh Dray

Don't get hit with a fine! This is how high your garden fence can be without planning permission

A garden with a wooden fence in the background.

Planning permission for garden fences might not be the most glamorous of topics, but recent weeks have seen plenty of people wondering exactly how high a fence can be – and for good reason.

It's all well and good having a long list of garden fence ideas to mull over, but there's no point obsessing over the best colours to paint your fence until you've researched the rules for fences in the UK.

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