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That's encouraging. I didn't want to open Pandora's box but I did ask one neighbour about it gently, who didn't sound best pleased - the previous owner apparently didn't mention it before building it, 'it just appeared overnight'. I wonder if us redoing it could be a catalyst for them to complain.
On the side most overlooked by our decking, the neighbour literally never goes into his garden - he has allowed his only access to it to be swamped with metres and metres of brambles. But if he ever sold the house I bet the new owners would immediately want to either get rid of our decking, or do something similar on their side - which would be odd. I guess we'd then need a fence between the two.
lemonade-
didn't sound best pleased
Tell them to shove up their busybody moany arses.
General Permitted Development Order Article 2
(2) Unless the context otherwise requires, any reference in this Order to the height of a building or of plant or machinery is to be construed as a reference to its height when measured from ground level; and for the purposes of this paragraph “ground level” means the level of the surface of the ground immediately adjacent to the building or plant or machinery in question or, where the level of the surface of the ground on which it is situated or is to be situated is not uniform, the level of the highest part of the surface of the ground adjacent to it.
(Oblig. I am not a planning officer, don't any advice I offer as gospel etc.)
NotThamesWater
I wouldn't have the slightest hesitation in replacing your decking, regardless of bylaws. The only way there could be any consequences is if the neighbours object, which as that has been there for a while is unlikely. If you're feeling nervous, talk to the neighbours.