A “Right to Light” is an easement that gives a landowner the right to receive a certain amount of natural light through defined apertures in buildings on their land. Our comprehensive Right to Light Assessments will reduce risk and exposure to legal challenges for your development by ensuring that you meet the relevant legal requirements. Pager Power’s Right to Light Assessments combined with our Daylight and Sunlight Assessments provide a comprehensive assessment portfolio to ensure impacts to neighbouring properties are known and understood at the earliest possible stage.
A Right to Light Assessment determines the interrelationship between a proposed building, or extension, and those protected apertures (normally windows) on buildings surrounding it to establish whether overshadowing will affect the natural daylight levels received. This phenomenon can create amenity issues, which can ultimately lead to legal challenges from neighbours due to the reduction of natural light through a protected window, costing you time and money to resolve.
When is a Right to Light Assessment required?
A window may acquire a Right to Light in several different ways, but the most common is through prescription, under the Prescription Act 1832. Rights to light are often acquired after 20 years of uninterrupted light to a window. Once this right has been acquired, the owner is entitled to ‘sufficient light according to the ordinary notions of mankind’, but this does not mean that they are entitled to completely unobstructed light. Our bespoke software has the capability to model the effects upon protected windows so you’ll know the impact of your development, and thus can make informed design choices that will avoid legal challenges.
How is Right to Light assessed?
More information about our bespoke modelling can be found here. The overall outcome of the report will show you whether your development would create an acceptable impact in accordance with the legal precedent. Typically, this means at least 50% of the assessed room should be able to see at least 0.2% of the sky, increasing to 55% for a residential properties. If the development does not meet this criteria, we will provide recommendations on how best to progress your project.
“Pager Power has provided a thorough, professional and timely service with excellent follow up. Their informed advice has provided crucial assistance to aid our clients’ decision making.”
Nigel Wright
Senior Project Manager, Turner & Townsend
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Pager Power leads the way in technical consultancy for renewable and urban projects, and our team of experts are on hand to solve your planning issues. We thrive on addressing client concerns; from engaging across time zones to attending meetings globally, we work to give your project every chance of success.
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From your first contact with us, we will identify the issues your project faces, your deadlines, and any other key parameters. We want to hear about you, how you work and your project, so that we can tailor our approach to your exact needs. From the first conversation we will develop a suitable scope of work with the key focus of moving your project or application forwards.
Accelerated Delivery
We offer a competitive standard delivery timeframe of 30 working days for our assessments. However, we can also offer guaranteed accelerated delivery options for occasions where time is of the essence. If you are in need of an assessment with a tight turnaround, do not hesitate to ask; we will try our utmost to accommodate your project timeline.
