CASE STUDIES: THE RELOCATION OF BUILDINGS THE HARDEST OF HARD ENGINEERING SCHEMES? In the spring of 1999 an event on the East Sussex coast attracted a great deal of media attention in Britain, including a special edition of BBC TV's Tomorroul's World. The Belle Tout lighthouse, which had been constructed not far from Beachy Head, near cost of around Eastbourne was moved 17 m inland £3 million. When the lighthouse was built in 183A it had been 35 m from the cliff edge, but 164 years of cliff recession left it 16 m from the edge. Then in 1998 a huge rock fall caused a loss of 13 m of cliffs leaving the Belle Tout precariously positioned s m from the edge of a 100-m drop into the English Channel. The private owners of the decided move it than allow nature to remove it.