South Oxfordshire district council gave Olivia Harrison permission to install new security defences around her mansion in Henley-on-Thames after an ongoing battle to protest against the extreme security measures she had in place. The mansion is currently protected by a 985 meters of razor wire fence which was installed after a brutal attack at the property in 1999 when a schizophrenic Liverpudlian broke into the property and stabbed the musician.
Neighbours Protest Over Security Fence
Fire Fighters Call For Common Sense
People across the country have been lapping up the sun and good weather the past couple of weeks following a glorious heat wave. Thousands of people have been having garden parties and the highlight of a good party is always a barbeque. With people drinking and enjoying themselves a little bit of common sense can sometimes go out of the window and that was certainly the case in Cove on Sunday. Rushmoor fire station had to respond to an incident on Haskins Road after a fire started there which destroyed a garden fence and left extensive damage to roof tiles and guttering.
Security In The Neighbourhood
In a small town in Somerset, CCTV and security lighting are going to be used to combat the effects of anti social behaviour as reported by a local paper. The article explained how thousands of pounds had initially been granted to put up 6ft high security fencing around a troubled area to stop local youths from wreaking havoc in the area.
Locals had offered to help pay for the security but hopes fell short when a local action team advised that gating off of the are was unfortunately not going to happen as it was a complex legal matter. Now residents and local police are looking into using the funding to install security lighting and CCTV to deter the youths from gathering in such areas.
Residents Seek Fencing
Selections of residents living in bungalows in the Dewsbury area of West Yorkshire are appealing for fencing around their homes. Last week, local resident Eddie Barber from Spen Valley Road had a nasty scare from yobs, as they dumped an old carpet by his front door, and set fire to it. The 79 year old resident who is deaf couldn’t hear the commotion through the night, and wasn’t aware of anything happening, until he awoke the next morning, and saw the mess they had caused.
Erecting a Fence – Putting in Fence Posts
If you’ve decided you want a new fence or have moved to a new home and want some privacy from neighbours or want to secure the garden for children or pets, once you have decided on the type of fence panels you wish to use, you will need to find work out how many panels and fence posts you will need. To calculate post lengths and how many fence panels you will use you need to remember a couple of major factors.
Decide firstly on the height of your fence because this can determine the length of your posts. If using wooden posts always add an additional 2ft to your fence posts e.g. if you want your fence at 5ft then you need 7ft fence posts. The reason being you need to bury the wooden posts 2ft into the ground to add extra support, especially if setting your posts in concrete.
Then to decide how many fence panels and posts you need, first calculate the length of the area you are fencing and measure both the length of one fence panel and the width of one of the fence posts. The measurements from the fence panel and fence post added together will give an accurate number of panels and posts required to fence your garden or yard.
Erecting a Garden Fence – Different Types of Fence Panels
First and foremost when erecting a fence the obvious and perhaps most important thing to do is to decide what type of fence will suit your needs. There are 4 main types of fencing that you can use:
- closeboard
- palisade
- overlap
- trellis
By understanding what each of these types of fencing look like and are suitable for, you will be able to get the best type of fence to suit your needs.
Closeboard fencing is made from overlapped boards of timber. Closeboard fence panels provide complete privacy and are the strongest of the 4 main types of fence.
Choosing Fencing For Your Garden – Cleft Chestnut Fence Panels
In my last few posts I have been discussing the pros and cons of different types of fencing and why they may or may not be the best option for your new fencing design or to add the finishing touch to your revamped garden.
More Options For Privacy Fencing in Your Garden
Last week I discussed some of the reasons why you may want to use privacy fencing to make your garden more private and touched on a couple of different types of fencing that would suit your garden and the reasons why these may be the best options for your garden or to be installed alongside a patio area or driveway.