We don’t have a branch in Hertford, and we won’t pretend to. Every gate is designed, forged and finished at our workshop — Unit 12, Hatfield Industrial Estate, Hertfordshire AL10 — and installed on-site by the same engineer who carried out the survey. Hertford sits within our standard travel area, so a site visit, delivery and installation are included, not added as extras once you’ve committed.
What that means in practice: one engineer, from the first sketch to the day the gate is commissioned — the same process described in full in our process chapter.
A single-leaf swing gate, automated and fitted with video intercom so the household can see and speak to a visitor before opening — a common brief for a single-vehicle entrance where the priority is control over who comes in, not sheer opening width.
You’ll find this project, and others nearby, on our completed projects page — we haven’t yet written a full case study for this one the way we have for Knebworth, but the specification above is accurate to the finished installation.
There’s no single gate that suits every property in Hertford, and we wouldn’t claim otherwise from a template. Hertford’s older streets tend to favour a traditional swing gate in wrought iron or timber, in keeping with the property; newer developments with wider frontages often suit a cantilever or tracked slider instead, since there’s no ground track to interrupt and nothing to maintain at ground level.
That’s exactly the question a site visit answers in the first ten minutes — not something we’d guess from the town name. Our swing vs sliding guide covers the trade-offs in full, and our cost guide has the published price bands if you want a realistic figure before you call.
East Herts District Council doesn’t just permit driveway and entrance gate work in principle — recent decided applications in Hertford show it in practice, for both ordinary homes and listed properties:
Dropped kerb vehicle access, boundary wall and gates
New extensions plus two timber gates and a reconfigured driveway
Listed Building Consent for timber access gates within an existing boundary wall
North Road House is a genuinely useful example: as a listed building, it needed a separate Listed Building Consent for its boundary wall and gates in 2025 (Ref. 3/25/0770/LBC), and a further one for the gates alone in 2026 — two consents for what would be a single, simpler application on an unlisted home. It’s exactly the kind of local detail worth knowing before you commission a gate near the historic core, not after. All three are searchable yourself on East Herts’ public planning portal.
No — every gate is designed, forged and finished at our workshop in Hatfield, and installed on-site by the same engineer who surveyed it. We serve Hertford as part of our regular working area, not from a local branch.
Yes. Site visits, delivery and installation are included within 25 miles of the Hatfield workshop; Hertford falls well within that. Anything genuinely further out is quoted per mile at the site visit, not added as a surprise later.
Usually not for a standard domestic gate — but it depends on height, whether the entrance is next to a road, and whether the property is listed or in a conservation area. Hertford’s local planning authority is East Herts District Council; Hertford Town Council is consulted on applications but isn’t the decision-maker. Properties near the historic core are more likely to need Listed Building Consent even for a simple gate — see the real examples below. Our planning permission guide covers the thresholds in full.
It varies by property, as it does everywhere — width, driveway shape and material choice matter more than the town itself. Hertford does have a genuine cluster of listed and period buildings around its historic core, which is the one local factor worth flagging early: it can mean an extra consent, not a different gate design.