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Perhaps you can enlighten us all and actually answer the question... Is a footing with single course of bricks and several 9inch piers a brick wall (for planning purposes) or not?

As far as I can tell, the principal elevation is the wall that I'd like to put the garage door on so I'm altering it rather than doing anything in front of it... There is a possibility that the wall isn't high or filled in enough enough to quality as an elevation, this is what I'm trying to...

Because the footings, 'walls' and roof have been there since the property was built. Have you read the original post? I am trying to work out if the planners are correct as they cannot seem to clarify why why they class something that is existing as enlargement of what us existing... A...

Also, the permitted development documents seem to suggest that enlargement forward of the principal elevation requires PP but we aren't enlarging the area or the habitable space so I don't think this applies?

Yes, but as the car port was built with the house and is made of brick supporting a roof, doesn't it form part of the principal elevation itself? The question is, does a low brick supporting wall with pillars constitute an 'elevation'?

We would like to convert the existing brick and flat-roof car port to a garage. Its attached to the house and is on footings with a single course of bricks around the perimeter with several piers. Permitted developments says we can alter walls as long as we don't use cladding. We have matching...

My new house has a greenhouse which was locked but no key. I opened the flimsy door with ease but it would be great to fit a new eurolock cylinder. Currently I have access to the inside of the door but have not been able to remove the cylinder, can someone please advise, I usually manage to do...

Thanks for the help, the floor is definately sloping and quite bouncy, although I should probably stop 'bounce tests' immediately! I think I'll get the wall rebuilt, I can put a concrete lintel in the middle to have access to the other half of the cellar.

The dinning room floor in our new house is sinking but I have access to underneath via the cellar. Floor is 4m by 4m and supported by 4x2 joists! The problem is that the previous owners decided to replace the sleeper wall running along the middle of the span with a 5x3 timber beam going the...