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Right to Light?

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  • 24-11-2014 1:04pm
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    Yawlboy
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    Hi,

    Our house has a kitchen window into the builders providers yard next door. We originally had 4 windows on his side but blocked up the others 20 odd years ago -the house was originally built in the 1700's.

    The kitchen window is purely for light not a view. However the owner of the yard has put up some steel bars (actually a load of scrap metal bolted together) to "restrict access" to his premises and now he has started stacking blocks/pallets etc in front of the window.

    I did speak to my solicitor and he said we had a right to light but I am not sure what exactly he means by that. Does anyone have some examples I could reference?

    Thanks in advance
    YB


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    Gumbo
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 38,443 Mod ✭✭✭✭Gumbo


    Yawlboy wrote: »
    I did speak to my solicitor and he said we had a right to light but I am not sure what exactly he means by that. Does anyone have some examples I could reference?
    Thanks in advance
    YB

    Isint that what you have paid your solicitor for?
    surely if theres a legal issue, your solicitor should be straight on the case.

    Is there a boundary outside of the window? Is the window used for fire escape purposes?


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    Yawlboy
    Registered Users Posts: 748 ✭✭✭Yawlboy


    kceire wrote: »
    Isint that what you have paid your solicitor for?
    surely if theres a legal issue, your solicitor should be straight on the case.

    Is there a boundary outside of the window? Is the window used for fire escape purposes?

    I spoke to my solicitor on the phone about it as he is at the high court today. There is no boundary as the window directly faces into the yard - I also have numerous windows on the first floor facing this yard and no it is not a fire escape.


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    the_syco
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    Sounds like an odd setup. Are you sure there's no land at all between your house, and the yard?


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    braddun
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    no right to light in Ireland

    you might get them on fire hazards


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    Poor Uncle Tom
    Registered Users Posts: 14,544 ✭✭✭✭Poor Uncle Tom


    http://www.lawsociety.ie/Documents/Gazette/Gazette%202014/Jan-Feb2014.pdf

    From page 31 onward is well worth a read.


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