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Article: Right To Light - How Valuable Is It?(Regan v Paul Properties Ltd )
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- Mondaq Business Briefing
- Article date:
- June 7, 2007
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How valuable is a right of light? In the first right of light case to come before the Court of Appeal in more than 20 years, it was decided that interference with a right to light could not be compensated by a monetary payment. Instead, an injunction was the appropriate remedy.
The recent decision of Regan v Paul Properties Ltd involved the development of a new five-storey building in Brighton, the construction of which would block the light to the living room of a first and second floor maisonette owned by Mr Regan. The maisonette enjoyed an easement granting a right to light. The top floor of the development was to be a penthouse flat which, when fully ...
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