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Objection to planning because building will block sunlight?

  • 06-06-2018 9:03pm
    #1
    MikeHar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13 ✭


    Hi,

    I'm looking at buying a house with a smallish East-facing garden. About 1m over the back wall there is a single story commercial premises (looks like a warehouse). The house is near enough Dublin city centre and the site behind is quite large and I imagine very valuable so it wouldn't surprise me, given the demand for housing, if the site was sold in the next few years for development. Being able to sit in the sun is very important to me and an important consideration in choosing a house. So, if the site was sold and a developer wanted to build a block of flats 1m over my back wall I wouldn't want to live there anymore. So, I'm wondering what kind of weight would be given to an objection to a based on the fact that it would block my sunlight ? Is there any rule-of-thumb ? Would this be considered completely irrelevant ? Or is it entirely at the whim of the official who assesses the objections ?

    Thanks,

    Mike.


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  • #2
    HeidiHeidi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,039 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    You have no right to sunlight.


    Despite knowing this, I objected to a neighbour building a two-story extension behind his house which cuts off my sun from about 2.30pm in summer. It failed.

    If it's a small eastfacing garden, you'd only really get sun there in the morning anyhow surely.


  • #3
    zom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,908 ✭✭✭zom


    HeidiHeidi wrote: »
    You have no right to sunlight.

    Wrong.
    Following European directive for Environmental Impact Assessment, developers are required to consider microclimat around and within a proposal, and this includes impact to daylight, sunlight, overshadowing, solar glare and light pollution.

    Although there is no specific planning regulations yet, most of analysis use British standards and guidelines. Example:

    http://www.dublincity.ie/AnitePublicDocs/00523990.pdf


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