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Newt Fencing - Permanent Newt Fencing (15 year UV resistant HDPE 100% recycled/recyclable 4mm board) and Great Crested Newt Drift Fencing, Amphibian Fencing, Reptile Fencing and Water Vole exclusion fencing. Legacy Habitat Management supply and install all your Great Crested Newt Fencing requirements including pitfall Traps, mammal ladders, permanent, temporary and one-way newt fencing barrier, tanalized stakes and washers.

We stock 1000s of metres of Newt Fencing on our e-commerce website @ www.wildlifefencing.co.uk.
Products include our own reusable Permanent Newt Fencing, Water Vole Fence and other Mammal Fencing Systems ready to supply and/or install.

Legacy Habitat Management carries out mitigation work for Great Crested Newts and Water Voles including ponds and ditch creation, hibernacular construction and planting. All installations comply with current Natural England guidelines and specification. For advice and consultation regarding Newt Fencing applications please contact us at Legacy Habitat Management on 0114 256 0106.

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Please also see our Frequenlty Asked Questions page on Newt Fencing.

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Legacy Habitat Management Ltd
Legacy House
Unit 2a Greasbro Road
Sheffield
South Yorkshire
S9 1TN
Tel: 0114 256 0106
Fax: 0114 242 0330
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Installing a Newt Fence

While it is not difficult to install a newt fence, it is also easy to get it wrong. By following these basic guidelines, you should be able to produce good results from the first. These guidelines apply to installation of polythene sheet newt fence.

Excavate a trench to the required depth (usually 200mm). It is important to use a machine that will cause minimum disturbance to the site and is able follow the line required. The spoil should be placed along the outside line of the trench.
Excavate buckets holes at the required spacing, spoil should remain on the inside line of the trench.
Drive in timber posts so that they are firm in the ground. Spacings are usually at 1500mm centres. The line of the posts should be on the inside line of the trench.
Roll out the polythene sheet along the outside line of the trench. Take up as much slack as possible.
Attach the polythene sheet to the posts using nails, screws or staples through a nylon washer. The washer spreads the load over a wider area and prevents the polythene being easily torn off the stakes.
Allow for a minimum 100mm underlap of polythene in the base of the trench. Along the top line, allow 150-200mm of polythene to create a top roll. This has the dual effect of adding a lot of strength to the top fixing point, and creating an overlap which cannot be scaled by newts. The overall height of the fence should be 500mm above ground level.
A minimum of three fixings per post with washers should be allowed for. The polythene should be free of major creases. Particular care should be taken at changes of slope.
Place pitfall traps in their holes with their lids on, and pack partially with soil to ensure good contact against the polythene sheet. Attach the pitfall trap to a wooden stake firmly driven in down the outside where vandalism or flooding might lift the trap out of the ground.
Backfill trench and pitfall traps. Care should be taken where soils are heavy that large clumps of soil do not damage the sheet, pull the sheet off the post or distort the pitfall traps. The fill material should be carefully compacted around the fence and traps to ensure that newts do not burrow underneath.

Installing a one-way Barrier

Where required the fence can be installed as a one-way barrier to allow amphibians and reptiles to exit a site but not re-enter.

Excavate a trench to the required depth (usually 200mm). It is important to use a machine that will cause minimum disturbance to the site and is able follow the line required. The spoil should be placed along the outside line of the trench
Lay the polythene in the trench with the outer edge to the outside of the site.
Backfill the trench and compact carefully
Fold the polythene back over to the outside of the site then drive in the stakes at 1500mm centres at 45 degrees

www.wildlifefencing.co.uk is the only specialist stockist of newt fence materials in the UK and can provide most of the items ex-stock delivered within three days. Large orders may require a longer lead time. Overnight delivery service is available by request.

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