What separates a good hoarding from a scruffy one
On paper, all site hoardings look the same — a tall timber fence around a building site. In practice the difference is in the detailing. Clean vertical post lines, flush panel joins, tight ground line, good paint finish, well-sized gates, and a matched specification all the way around. Get those right and the hoarding looks permanent and considered. Get them wrong and it looks temporary and cheap — which reads to the public and to the planners as a site that’s being cut-cornered.
We detail our hoardings properly. Post spacings are measured, not eyeballed. Panel joins run plumb. Gates hang true and close cleanly. Paint or print finishes run edge-to-edge without gaps at the posts. Signage is mounted square and at a consistent height. It takes an extra half-day on install and it shows for the length of the project.
Public-facing sites
On retail, mixed-use and high-street developments the hoarding is part of the client’s public-facing messaging. Branded hoarding is often the most cost-effective way a developer has to communicate the project’s scope, timeline, and end-tenant mix to the community. We’ll work with the client’s marketing team or design agency to deliver hoarding panels to their artwork, whether that’s full vinyl wraps, printed composite boards, or hand-painted finishes.
Licence lead times
The single biggest risk on commercial hoarding is the local authority licence process. Most councils want four to six weeks from application to issue for a pavement licence, and none of them tolerate unlicensed hoarding on the footway. If you’ve got a project mobilising inside six weeks, flag the hoarding scope to us early so we can get the licence paperwork moving in parallel with your procurement.
If you’ve got an upcoming commercial job that needs hoarding, get in touch. We’ll do a site visit, produce a hoarding drawing against your site plan, and assemble the licence paperwork alongside our quote.
