Maximum fence height - Scotland

[MrsL123]

Also posted in gardening, wasn't sure of the best place!

According to the planning portal site, permitted development rules allow a garden fence 2 meters in height (6.5 feet - enough for a six foot fence panel plus a small concrete gravel board). But it says the info only applies to England and Wales, which is helpful!

My know it all FIL says the highest a fence can be is 6 feet. But I know people commonly mistake 6 feet for being 2 metres, when in fact it's only 1.8 meters, so I think this is where the six feet / two meter confusion might be coming from?

I'm having no luck finding the information online and the council offices are closed until Monday, and I really need to price up my fencing. If it is six feet instead of two meters, I'll have to get 5 foot fence panels and try to find 12 inch gravel boards, which is a pain because it's more expensive (a pack of 5 foot panels are £100 dearer than the 6 foot ones for some reason!). Can't do without the gravel boards either, as we have really wet clay soil.

Should have known it wouldn't be simple!

I think it's 2 meters, but it also depends on the distance you are to a road or path

this may be useful?

Thanks oricella. The six foot thing didn't really make sense to me as you'd expect councils to work in meters, so I don't think they'd say 1.83m instead of 2m! The problem is people think a meter is 3 feet, so then they think two meters is 6 feet. Of course you never know with councils, their rules can be a bit strange! It's probably 1.798 meters or something equally daft

The road thing is a bit confusing too. We're mid terrace and although there's a road at the front of the house, our back garden is surrounded on both sides and at the back by other gardens, so the fencing won't run parallel to any roads or footpaths, unless they class the road at the front of the house as being 'any road within 20m' - but then surely everyone's back gardens would be within 20m of at least one road or footpath, unless they have a really long house or get to their front door through a field?! They certainly don't like to make things easy to understand!