{"id":43587,"date":"2025-07-25T17:38:47","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T16:38:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=43587"},"modified":"2025-07-25T17:38:47","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T16:38:47","slug":"ihbcs-legislation-policy-signpost-landmark-right-to-light-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=43587","title":{"rendered":"IHBC\u2019s \u2018Legislation &amp; Policy\u2019 Signpost: Landmark right to light case"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>An office building owner avoids demolition order in a landmark \u2018rights to light\u2019 case, is reposted in by Pinsent Masons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Pinsent Masons writes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It would be disproportionate and a \u2018waste of a high quality, valuable resource\u2019 to force the owner of a new office building\u2026 to demolish substantial parts\u2026 to remedy the building\u2019s interference with \u2018rights to light\u2019\u2026 the High Court in England and Wales has ruled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A right to light gives the owner of a building the right to maintain a level of natural daylight\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pinsentmasons.com\/out-law\/news\/office-owner-wins-rights-light-case\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read more&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An office building owner avoids demolition order in a landmark \u2018rights to light\u2019 case, is reposted in by Pinsent Masons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[6,30,93,16,91],"class_list":["post-43587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ihbc-newsblog","tag-building","tag-environment","tag-legislation","tag-planning","tag-policy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43587"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43588,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43587\/revisions\/43588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}