Fencing service highlights for Dulwich
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SE21–SE24
£60 survey
Fencing in Dulwich
ulwich is a straight run from our South-West London base and one of the more interesting places we price. The Village and Sydenham Hill sit on long Edwardian plots with 25 to 40 metres of boundary and mature trees right on the line, so root plates dictate where posts can go. East Dulwich is the opposite problem: rows of tight Victorian terraces where a 14-metre rear boundary is normal and everything has to come through the house or down a shared side alley.
What Dulwich throws at a fence
Much of Dulwich sits within the Dulwich Estate scheme of management, so if you back onto an estate road or a listed frontage there may be a consent step before anything over about a metre goes up at the front. Rear garden boundaries are usually unaffected. The ground here is London clay that shrinks hard in a dry summer — a timber post set in that will move within two seasons, which is why we spec concrete on almost every Dulwich run. Your estimate is free; if you later want us out to confirm a fixed price, the survey fee for SE21–SE24 is £60, credited in full against the job.
Most Dulwich jobs are one of two things: a new fence installation where there's nothing there yet, or a full fence replacement of a boundary that's come to the end of its life.
Quick facts
- Survey fee
- £60
- Typical job
- £1.5k–£4k
- Typical timeline
- 1–3 days on site
Later, only if you want it · comes off your job
Minimum job £1,200
Weather depending
Most-requested fences in Dulwich.
- 01
Closeboard with concrete posts
What we fit most across SE22 — clay ground and long terrace runs punish timber posts.
- 02
Hit-and-miss
The usual answer on Village boundaries where both neighbours look at the same fence and neither wants the back of it.
- 03
Slatted screens
Popular on side returns and rear-extension patios in East Dulwich, where a solid 6ft wall of timber would black the room out.
Dulwich prices, per metre fitted.
Supply and installation, VAT included, for a standard replacement on clear ground. These are the same figures our estimator uses — updated August 2026.
Worked example
18 m of 6 ft closeboard with concrete posts and gravel boards, standard access, clear boundary — £2,950–£4,050 fitted.
Taking the old fence away is an optional extra you choose on the estimate form — it's priced separately and isn't in the figures above. Minimum job £1,200.
Much of Dulwich sits within the Dulwich Estate scheme of management, so if you back onto an estate road or a listed frontage there may be a consent step before anything over about a metre goes up at the front.
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What that looks like on a real Dulwich garden.
The same per-metre rates above, applied to three jobs we see often around here. Illustrative, not a second price list — your figure is fixed at the survey.
Example job
14m rear boundary, 6ft closeboard, concrete posts.
£2,300
The standard East Dulwich terrace run.
Example job
30m Village boundary, hit-and-miss, tree roots on the line.
£5,850
Two to three days. Post positions set around the roots, not through them.
Example job
12m slatted screen to a side return.
£2,280
Same van, same setup as a long run — our £1,200 minimum applies.
Send photos through the estimate form and we'll come back with your indicative figure the same day (next morning if it's the evening).
Four steps, no surprises.
Send photos
Through the estimate form. Takes 3 minutes.
Indicative estimate
Same day in working hours. Free, honest range, no pressure.
£60 fixed-price survey, if you want it
Want a fixed price? We visit Dulwich, measure, and lock it in. The fee comes off your job price.
Install
Our team fits it — usually 1–3 days on site.
Why Dulwich homeowners pick us over a random trade.
One company, end to end
GoodFence is a small London fencing company. We survey every Dulwich job, price it, fit it with our own team and stand behind it ourselves. One contract, one number, one company on the hook — not a directory, not a stranger off a phonebook.
Fixed price, no day-of surprises
The price you sign off doesn't move unless the ground itself tells us otherwise — and if it does, we put any change in writing before we touch a tool. One quote, one number to call.
Specced for Dulwich ground
Clay across the south and east, made-up ground and buried rubble near anything rebuilt after the war, and tree roots wherever there is a street plane or a mature garden boundary. Concrete posts earn their keep on exposed runs. Concrete posts on exposed runs, pressure-treated rails, proper feather-edge — we spec the bits that decide how long it lasts.
Where a tree sits on the line we move the post, not the root. Bays get set out around what's there so the fence still runs straight and the tree keeps its feet.
Where in Dulwich we work.
- Dulwich Village
- West Dulwich
- East Dulwich
- Herne Hill
- Sydenham Hill
- North Dulwich
- Peckham Rye
On the edge of Dulwich? Drop your postcode into the estimate form and we'll confirm coverage.
Worth reading before you commit.
The three things Dulwich homeowners ask us most, answered in full — no sign-up, no catch.
Dulwich questions.
Ready when you are, Dulwich.
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