Bath and North East Somerset Council records 35 conservation areas in its district and says permission is often needed to demolish a garden wall facing a highway or public footpath.
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Our own total over the fourteen named Bath city areas is 44,260 properties (VOA CTSOP4.1, stock at 31 March 2025). 16,790 of them predate 1919, which is 37.9 per cent, and 21,390 predate 1940, which is 48.3 per cent. 6,520, which is 14.7 per cent, were built in 2000 or later. That is our own total over the named Bath areas, not a published town row.
The published Bath and North East Somerset row records 86,890 properties, 29.1 per cent of them pre 1919 and 17.0 per cent built since 2000. Census 2021 table TS044 for the same district records 28.7 per cent of households semi detached, 27.2 per cent terraced, 22.3 per cent detached and 19.4 per cent in purpose built or converted flats combined. The two figures cover different areas, and neither records what a boundary is made of.
We would build one page for the central streets, where the council's wording on demolition applies, and one for the outer areas, each carrying your own finished work.
65.1 per cent, 62.7 per cent and 60.0 per cent built before 1940, with purpose built or converted flats at 44.9 per cent, 60.5 per cent and 58.8 per cent of households (VOA CTSOP4.1 and Census 2021 TS044).
Walls, railings and gates in the central streets, where the council's demolition wording applies.
48.6 per cent of households semi detached and 13.7 per cent detached, with 32.9 per cent of property built before 1940 and 4.1 per cent since 2000 (Census 2021 TS044 and VOA CTSOP4.1).
Rear garden runs and side gates between semi detached pairs in Southdown.
41.0 per cent semi detached and 42.1 per cent terraced, with 33.1 per cent built before 1940 and 32.3 per cent between 1945 and 1972 (Census 2021 TS044 and VOA CTSOP4.1).
Closeboard and panel runs on post war plots in Odd Down.
21.0 per cent detached and 29.5 per cent semi detached, with 25.7 per cent of property built before 1940 and 23.8 per cent since 2000 (Census 2021 TS044 and VOA CTSOP4.1).
Boundary and decking work on the newer plots alongside the older ones in Combe Down.
51.8 per cent and 59.5 per cent built before 1940, with 53.8 per cent and 49.6 per cent of households terraced (VOA CTSOP4.1 and Census 2021 TS044).
Rear garden fencing and access gates on terraced streets in Oldfield Park West and East.
Bath and North East Somerset Council records "35 conservation areas in our district", and on boundaries says "You will often need permission for the demolition of garden walls, especially those facing a highway or public footpath". It adds that "Further controls on Permitted Development rights will apply if we have made an Article 4 Direction", and describes such a direction as applying "in a particular location where the council is protecting special features, such as a conservation area or the setting of a site with high heritage value".
The Planning Portal sets the national rule behind every Bath job. It says you will not need to apply for planning permission to erect a new, or alter, maintain, improve or take down an existing fence, wall or gate where it is "next to a highway used by vehicles (or the footpath of such a highway) and it would not exceed one metre in height (from ground level)", or where "it would not exceed two metres in height (from ground level) if elsewhere". Where a Bath boundary already exceeds those limits, the condition is that "its height would not be increased".
The same Planning Portal conditions require, at a Bath address, that "no part of the site is a listed building or within the curtilage of a listed building" and that "the right to put up or alter fences, walls and gates has not been removed by an article four direction or a planning condition". In a Bath conservation area it says "you might need permission take down a fence, wall or gate".
In Bath we would explain how you check the conservation boundary, any Article 4 direction and the proposed work before confirming whether permission is needed.
The local field, 16 September 2026
We counted the Google Maps results for fencing contractors in Bath on 16 September 2026. The sample was 15 trade firms with a Bath address: 12 had their own website, one listed a Facebook page as its site and two had none. Three more rows were Bath timber and builders merchants, four had no address, six were firms addressed outside the city and twelve were branch listings of national chains, all of them in Scotland.
That is one dated sample of one Bath search. What we would do with it is give Walcot, Oldfield Park, Southdown, Odd Down and Combe Down a page each, carrying the walls, gates and runs you have finished there.
Three Bath firms appeared in the first ten Google local listings we checked for "fencing contractors in Bath", with sites worth opening. One runs before and after photographs with customer comments beside them, and one sets out what it supplies on a single page.
It has no page per area and no reviews on the page. Quotes come by phone.
The site's text names Bath and describes its gardening services.
It carries photographs of its own jobs and reviews on the page. It has no page per area. Quotes come by phone.
Before and after photographs of finished jobs run through the page with customer comments beside them.
A custom site built by an agency. It has no page per area, no photographs of its own jobs and no reviews on the page. Quotes come by phone.
It states what it supplies and who it supplies on a single page.
None keep the phone number in the header, one carries reviews on the page, and none run a page per area. Each one opened and checked 16 September 2026.
"fencing Bath"
70 searches a month (OpenSEO keyword data, September 2026)
The town page, naming the areas you cover and showing a finished job in each.
"fencing contractors Bath"
10 searches a month (OpenSEO keyword data, September 2026)
The wording an agent or a builder uses. Its own page, about contract and repeat work in Bath.
"decking Bath"
10 searches a month (OpenSEO keyword data, September 2026)
A decking page for Bath, with the frame, the fixings and a finished deck on it.
"fence repairs Bath"
no recorded monthly volume (OpenSEO keyword data, September 2026)
A row came back for that Bath wording with nothing against it. The repairs page is still built, with the photo upload on it.
"fencing companies Bath"
no recorded monthly volume (OpenSEO keyword data, September 2026)
Queried and returned with nothing against it. The Bath town page carries the wording anyway.
"garden gates Bath"
no recorded monthly volume (OpenSEO keyword data, September 2026)
Queried and returned with nothing against it. Gates keep their own Bath page, with the fittings shown.
Of the six Bath phrases shown, three carry a recorded monthly volume. Fence repairs Bath, fencing companies Bath and garden gates Bath do not.
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It gives that work its own page. Bath and North East Somerset Council says "You will often need permission for the demolition of garden walls, especially those facing a highway or public footpath", and records 35 conservation areas in the district. The page would quote that, show finished walls, and say how you check an address first.
OpenSEO recorded 70 monthly searches for fencing Bath, and 10 each for fencing contractors Bath and decking Bath. Five further phrases came back with no recorded volume. Those are estimates for particular wordings, not a measure of the work available. The town page and a page per job are what we would build on them.
The Bath pull on 16 September 2026 returned 40 listings. Fifteen were trade firms with a Bath address: 12 had their own websites, one listed Facebook and two had none. Three were Bath merchants and twelve were branch listings of national chains in Scotland. It is a dated sample of listings, and the page would say so.
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