Palisade fencing?

Amanda_Cm

Last week on Friday we complete on a house. Yesterday we realised that someone cut part of the plants and fence in the back garden and probably entered the garden. We change all locks and there was not forced entry into the house. We have neighbours on both sides but some tree area on the back with big level difference.
I am getting paranoid now. We have young child and can't imagine someone walking around our garden. Thinking of installing palisade fencing on the back but not sure if is legal.

Davesnave

Is the house empty? It strikes me that this sort of thing does not happen much with property that is occupied and it may not ever happen again. Even if it did, the last thing the typical domestic burglar would want is your child; children are far too costly to maintain.

Do you really want the back of your new home to look like a POW camp? I can't see why the steel fencing you refer to should be illegal if businesses fit it, but you'll be restricted to under 2m for a boundary not by a road and you may need to add warning notices to stay within the law. Things might be different in a conservation area etc.

https://thecrimepreventionwebsite.com/garden-boundaries-fences-and-defensive-plants/614/the-uk-law-concerning-fences-walls-and-gates/

My paranoid neighbours in the city had a much better idea, which was climbing roses. I just wish it hadn't been my garden they climbed into......

Amanda_Cm

Thanks for your replay.
The back is around 31m or 100ft so that's lots of climbing roses. Love the idea though. Thank you!

Davesnave

Amanda_Cm wrote: »

Thanks for your replay.
The back is around 31m or 100ft so that's lots of climbing roses. Love the idea though. Thank you!

I have 250m bordering a road, so I use blackthorn hawthorn and dog rose to do the same job. They're occasionally cut with a tractor flail, which makes them bush out to become an impenetrable barrier.

But seriously, there are lots of shrubs, besides roses, that are prickly, reasonably quick-growing and easier to control. Or there's rosa rugosa that doesn't grow much above 6' and is often used in lanscaping schemes.