Site Hoarding in Nottingham

The classic construction hoarding is a framed timber structure clad in plywood sheets, painted or left ready for branding, typically 2.4m high. It fully screens the site, provides a solid security barrier, and gives a clean, continuous face to the public footpath or road. We build it on a braced timber frame with posts set or supported appropriately for the ground and exposure, with access and vehicle gates formed into the line where needed. Ply hoarding is the right choice wherever the public passes close to the works, where appearance matters, or where planning or the principal contractor requires solid screening.

For early works, site compounds, plots between phases, or anywhere a quick, movable line is enough, temporary mesh fencing (Heras-style panels in feet or blocks) is faster and more flexible. It secures the area, is easy to reconfigure as the site changes, and removes cleanly at the end. It doesn't screen the view or stop determined access the way solid hoarding does, so we use it where the requirement is delineation and basic security rather than full screening or public-facing presentation.

Hoarding is often a target — sites hold plant, materials, and tools worth stealing. Solid ply hoarding can be specified taller, with anti-climb measures and security-rated access gates, and we form lockable vehicle and pedestrian gates into the line. Where security is the priority over screening, we'll talk through combining hoarding with security fencing or toppers. The frame and fixings matter: a hoarding line has to take wind load over a large solid face, so it's braced and founded to stay up and secure for the duration of the project.

A solid hoarding line is also a marketing surface. The plywood face can be painted in site or developer colours and is ready for printed boards, vinyl wraps, or project hoarding graphics — site name, what's coming, contact details, and safety information. For residential and commercial developments fronting a street, a clean, branded hoarding presents the project professionally from day one and keeps the public informed. We build the line so graphics can be applied to it (we install the hoarding; graphics are supplied/applied to suit your branding).

Hoarding has to do its safety job for the whole build: keeping the public out and separated from excavations, plant movements, and falling-object risk. A large solid face also catches significant wind, so it has to be engineered and braced for it — poorly founded hoarding that blows over is a serious hazard. We build to take the load and stay stable, form safe pedestrian routes and gates where the line meets footways, and work to the site's requirements. Where a highway licence or specific council requirement applies to hoarding on or near the public highway, that's arranged by the site/principal contractor; we build to the agreed specification.

We're a Nottingham-registered limited company trading from Chris Allsop Industrial Park in Colwick, with over 140 five-star reviews on Google and £5 million public liability cover. Owner-led — Kye runs every job. Free no-obligation site surveys, fixed prices in writing before work starts, all work guaranteed. We install solid ply hoarding and temporary site fencing, and can take hoarding down and clear away at the end of the project. Ring us to arrange a survey for your site.