Please Help? Re: my window blacked out by my neigbour

[nusha]

Hi, does anybody know if have any chance of stopping my neighbour from blocking my conservatory window (frosted glass) which has been in situ for over 15yrs, on Sunday they erected a bamboo fence onto my conservatory, blocking my window, without my consent. I asked them to remove it but they have refused. Do I have any rights? Don't really want a war, but don't want my window blocked either.
Please help if you can.
Thanks

[BagPussAA]

Unfortunately as long as the fence is on their side of the boundry and is not touching your conservatory then I think that they are within their rights to put it there.
Sorry.

[jno]

you do have a right to light. Some explanation here of how far it goes:

http://www.rics.org/Practiceareas/Property/Rig htstolight/light_what_is_a_right_to_light0906. htm

[Twenty20]

Do you actually mean they attached the screen onto your conservatory or is it next to it?

[nusha]

Thank you all for you answers, you are all very helpful, in answer to your questions... there was an old trelis there which I did not give consent to put up, but that did not block my window as much as this bamboo fence, they have attched the thing to the old trelis. So not too sure how that will work???

[flyciderman]

Have you thought that your conservatory with the frosted glass might look ugly from their side of the fence?

[buildersmate]

They can erect a fence up to 2 metres high at the boundary on their side. Above that is not on and requires planning permission.

[nusha]

Once again , thank you for taking the time to answer, I think, I have come to a decision??? am going to block the window off completely, then I will nothave to be concerned about what anybody does.
Again.....Thank you

[georgedoran]

Well if you ask me it is your own fault. When you have the conservatory built, you shouldn't have been so incosiderate, as to have any window of any sort facing into their garden! It is well within their right to errect a fence on their land, and i ahrdly think it will account to 'right of light' as tyour conservatory has other windows. Image how they must have felt for years, ahving your froted conservatory window facing into their garden!!

how would you have liked it!