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We can build sheds, verandahs and decks and repair farm homes in Gheringhap, where the Ballarat and Hamilton railway lines divide. We have done 13 jobs in Bannockburn next door, and the river and flood rules are checked before we start.
Gheringhap is farmland and rail country on the Midland Highway between Batesford and Bannockburn, with part of the Moorabool River valley inside its boundary.
The median farm lot is about 13.6 hectares, and every home counted at the 2021 census was a separate house. Under the Golden Plains Farming Zone, a new house needs a permit unless the lot is at least 100 hectares. An extension of up to 200 square metres, or an outbuilding of up to 250 square metres that goes with the house, needs no zone permit if it meets the road, boundary, neighbour and 100 metre waterway setbacks.
A landscape overlay covers the Moorabool River corridor. A building needs no permit under it if it’s under 6 metres high, adds no more than 50 square metres, uses muted colours, needs no more than 600 mm of cut or fill, and is more than 50 metres from the top of the bank. Most fences within 50 metres of the bank need a permit.
Flood overlays cover parts of the low ground. In the inundation overlay, a carport, pergola or shed open on all sides, or a deck on stumps or piers with its foundations open on at least three sides, needs no permit. All of Gheringhap is bushfire prone, but there is no Bushfire Management Overlay. We check the address before planning anything.
Running a farm business or planning in the Gheringhap employment area? That side of our work is on our commercial carpentry page.
What Gheringhap’s farm homes need most.
Open-sided structures that suit the flood rules.
Verandahs for farmhouses on open ground.
Decks on stumps, open underneath where flooding matters.
Extensions up to 200 m² within the zone setbacks.
For the heritage-listed homesteads on Bakers Bridge Road.
House-yard and paddock fences.
Doors and windows on older farmhouses.
Tell us the road and what you need built or fixed.
Valley, flood and farm setbacks, before we price it.
Itemised, in writing.
The site left tidy when we leave.
Prompt, great communication and a terrific job. Have used JF Maintenance for lots of work over the years and would recommend.
Michael worked with our budget and we were so impressed by their diligence and workmanship. They did not cut corners but went the extra mile. So impressed we engaged them again at another property.
Beyond our expectations, and it was great to work with people who could turn our ideas into something better than we imagined. Couldn’t recommend them highly enough.
Gheringhap’s school opened in 1858, the railway to Ballarat arrived in 1862, and the line to Hamilton followed in 1913, which made Gheringhap the junction it still is. The post office opened in 1869 and closed in 1968.
The 2021 census counted 132 residents with a median age of 49. Farm lots, a river valley and flood mapping are why the work here is checked before it’s built.
Bannockburn • Batesford • Fyansford • Golden Plains
Gheringhap borders Sutherlands Creek, Bannockburn, Stonehaven, Batesford and Moorabool.
Tell us the road and the job, and we will come back with what the rules allow and a free estimate.