Glass Pool Fencing Vaucluse

Between Rose Bay and Watsons Bay the ground falls toward the harbour, with Parsley Bay on that foreshore. Strickland House and Vaucluse House are the large estates in this harbour precinct, and the houses sit in gardens with side setbacks that leave a view between buildings. On sloping sites the built form is meant to step down the block. A stepped glass line follows those levels, and the gate goes where people walk through to the pool. Frameless panels sit on stainless steel spigots.

Bell Street holds late Victorian weatherboard cottages with timber picket fences. The 1887 subdivision pattern remains intact. The street sits beside the bend of Old South Head Road, on the approach to Watsons Bay. A pool fence here stays in the yard, with clear glass and slim fixings, so the cottages and the picket fences remain the street view. Ask Woollahra Council whether the address is inside the Bell Street heritage conservation area.

If the pool is still being planned, Woollahra asks that the swimming pool, measured from the water edge, sit at least 1.8m from the property boundaries, that the surrounds be no more than 1.2m above or below the existing ground level, and that the pool not occupy the deep soil landscaped area. Tell us if the pool is already in. We measure that position and draw the glass around it.