You will not need to apply for planning permission if you wish to erect a new; or alter, maintain, improve or take down* an existing fence, wall or gate if the following conditions are met:

• regarding its height:

• it is next to a highway used by vehicles (or the footpath of such a highway) and it would not exceed one metre in height (from ground level); or

• it would not exceed two metres in height (from ground level) if elsewhere; or

• if an existing fence, wall or gate already exceeds the limits above, that its height would not be increased.

• no part of the site is a listed building or within the curtilage of a listed building.

• no part of the fence, wall, gate or any other boundary involved, forms a boundary with a neighbouring listed building or its curtilage.

• the right to put up or alter fences, walls and gates has not been removed by an article four direction or a planning condition.

• If any of these conditions are not met, then you will need to apply for planning permission.

Fences, walls and gates do not require building regulation approval.

However, the structures must be structurally sound and maintained.

If the garden wall is classes as a 'party fence wall' then you may have to notify the adjoining owner.