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Sadly the structures are down, not falling down. As they failed rotting at ground level it would have been a major work to keep them in place.

I thought planning does not allow any building forward of the principle elevation, am I incorrect, is it just permitted developement that isn't allowed and i could go through formal planning?

Hi, My property was built in 1931 on the top of a hill. 50m away at the bottom on the hill/garden is a brick built single garage shown on the orginal deeds in 1931. The Garage is in the principle elevation. (see attached) The Garage area quite oftern floods (from the road) and it gets about 6 inches deep of water. Due to nearly a 100 years of flooding it now needs rebuilding (and ideally the ground level raising). The council refuse to do anything about the flooding. Contary to the orginal plans, one corner of the brick Garage is right up against the boundry fence (no 1m gap) To complicate matters, when i moved into the property 5 years ago, it had many wooden structures built both sides of the garage which increased the area of build about 3-4 times.... A large 2nd garage and two further large shed / lean too's. They have been slowly collasping due to rot from flooding. The last of them came down in the winds the other weekend. These wooden structures pre date year 2000 (its the oldest photos i have) When I moved in I assumed I could knock down the lot and rebuilt a new double garage but now I realise that its technically in the Principle Elevation. I can find no information about what happens with structures already in the principle elevation... can anyone give me any advice? Cheers Mick