Fencing in Yering

One overlay over everything

Yering has 138 residents and no residential zone. It is farmland, vineyards and reserves, and the landscape overlay throughout is SLO2, the open valley overlay. Under SLO2 a fence needs a planning permit unless it is rural post and open-weave wire under 1.8 m. A post-and-rail front fence by a homestead, or a solid screen beside the highway, is a question for Yarra Ranges' planners first.

SLO2's exemption doesn't settle it on the flats, though. About seven tenths of Yering is under the flood overlay, and there any fence needs a planning permit, post and wire included. About a quarter has ESO1, whose fence wording is unclear, so ask the council about that one too.

A VicPlan property report confirms it for your lot.

Checked 25 October 2026 against Wikipedia: Yering, Victoria, 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), Victoria Planning Provisions, Clause 44.04 (Land Subject to Inundation Overlay) and Yarra Ranges Planning Scheme, Schedules to Clause 42.01 (ESO1, ESO2).

Dairy cattle and horses

Yering grew on grazing and dairying after the vines of the 1800s gave way, and today has the Yarra Valley Dairy, with 500 cattle, and a 247-hectare horse agistment centre. Barbed wire is allowed along a road or public open space only where the block is at least 2,000 m² and mainly used for livestock. Where plain wire holds the stock, the state's Land for Wildlife note prefers it, for the gliders and birds that snag on barbs. Farm fencing has the rest.

Checked 25 October 2026 against Wikipedia: Yering, Victoria, Building Regulations 2018 (Vic), authorised version 031 and Land for Wildlife note LW0029: fencing wildlife habitat (1999).

Heritage places

Yeringberg's winery and stables on the Maroondah Highway are on the Victorian Heritage Register, and Yering has six heritage places on the planning map. In a Heritage Overlay a fence that can be seen from a street or a public park needs a planning permit.

Checked 25 October 2026 against Wikipedia: Yering, Victoria, Vicmap Planning, the state's zone and overlay maps (DataVic), measured across the suburb and Victoria Planning Provisions, Clause 43.01 (Heritage Overlay).

Neighbouring rules

Coldstream and Yarra Glen

More SLO2 flats, each with a township where the rules differ.

Tarrawarra and Gruyere

No town streets. Tarrawarra's flats are mostly SLO2, Gruyere's farms mostly SLO6, and both leave the same wire fence alone.

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