Fencing in Yarra Junction

The township overlay asks about the front

Yarra Junction, with 2,875 people at the 2021 census and five schools, grew where the timber tramways met the railway, not where two rivers meet. More than nine in ten of its house blocks are under SLO22, the township landscape overlay. Its fence rule is about the front fence: a planning permit unless the fence is under 1.2 m or more than 75% see-through.

Part of the town is also under DDO8, a design overlay whose guidance is for front fences below 1.2 m and more than 75% see-through, which lines up with SLO22's exemption. The short strip of houses at the Wesburn end has no landscape overlay at all.

Get a VicPlan property report to see which of these is yours.

Checked 25 October 2026 against Wikipedia: Yarra Junction, Vicmap Planning, the state's zone and overlay maps (DataVic), measured across the suburb, Yarra Ranges Planning Scheme, Schedules to Clause 42.03 (SLO1–6, SLO22, SLO23) and Yarra Ranges Planning Scheme, Schedules to Clause 43.02 (DDOs).

Heights from the building rules

Yarra Ranges' residential zones set no front-fence height, so the state's building rules apply. Within 3 m of the street, a fence over 1.5 m, or over 1.2 m in brick or concrete, needs a building permit. Behind that, side and back fences up to 2 m need none. SLO22 doesn't reach them, but another overlay on your report might. Fence permits lists the rest.

Checked 25 October 2026 against Building Regulations 2018 (Vic), authorised version 031, Victoria Planning Provisions, Clause 62.02 (buildings and works) and Yarra Ranges Planning Scheme, Schedules to Clause 42.03 (SLO1–6, SLO22, SLO23).

The farms on the valley floor

Two thirds of the locality is green wedge farmland, mostly under SLO6 with some SLO2. Both exempt one kind of fence, rural post and open-weave wire under 1.8 m, and ask for a permit for anything else. ESO1 covers about a third of the locality; its fence wording is unclear, so check with Yarra Ranges planning before fencing land under it. About a sixth of the locality is under the flood overlay, where a fence of any kind needs a planning permit.

Checked 25 October 2026 against Vicmap Planning, the state's zone and overlay maps (DataVic), measured across the suburb, Yarra Ranges Planning Scheme, Schedules to Clause 42.03 (SLO1–6, SLO22, SLO23), Yarra Ranges Planning Scheme, Schedules to Clause 42.01 (ESO1, ESO2) and Victoria Planning Provisions, Clause 44.04 (Land Subject to Inundation Overlay).

Heritage places

A few blocks carry a Heritage Overlay. There, any fence the public can see from a street or park is a planning permit matter, and each place has its own row of controls in the council's schedule. Camp Eureka on Tarrango Road is on the Victorian Heritage Register, and the old railway station building is now the Upper Yarra Museum.

Checked 25 October 2026 against Wikipedia: Yarra Junction, Vicmap Planning, the state's zone and overlay maps (DataVic), measured across the suburb, Victoria Planning Provisions, Clause 43.01 (Heritage Overlay) and Yarra Ranges Planning Scheme, Schedule to Clause 43.01 (heritage places).

Up and down the Warburton Highway

Warburton

SLO22 on the house blocks too, with the same front-fence rule.

Wesburn and Launching Place

Town blocks mostly without a landscape overlay; farms and bush under SLO6, SLO2 or SLO4.

Gladysdale and Hoddles Creek

No town blocks, and SLO6 nearly everywhere.

Checked 25 October 2026 against Yarra Ranges Planning Scheme, Schedules to Clause 42.03 (SLO1–6, SLO22, SLO23).