An office building owner avoids demolition order in a landmark ‘rights to light’ case, is reposted in by Pinsent Masons.
Pinsent Masons writes:
It would be disproportionate and a ‘waste of a high quality, valuable resource’ to force the owner of a new office building… to demolish substantial parts… to remedy the building’s interference with ‘rights to light’… the High Court in England and Wales has ruled.
A right to light gives the owner of a building the right to maintain a level of natural daylight…
