Tate Modern ‘nuisance’ ruling will have wider implications, lawyers say

Neo Bankside flats overlooked by the Tate Modern viewing deck on the 10th floor of the Switch House

Source: Elizabeth Hopkirk

Supreme Court decision could spark new challenges and affect provision of public viewing space according to property specialists

The Supreme Court’s ruling that the public-viewing gallery at Herzog & de Meuron’s Tate Modern extension is a “nuisance” to residents of RSHP’s nearby Neo Bankside apartment scheme is likely to have wider implications for development, property lawyers have said.

One area of particular exposure are projects that feature public viewing space, if that offer is not the primary purpose of the building. The provision of such space in new high-rise buildings has been actively promoted by the City of London Corporation in recent years.

In a decision handed down yesterday, the nation’s top appeal court said lower courts had been wrong not to categorise hundreds of thousands people using Tate Modern’s 10th floor viewing gallery as posing a nuisance to inhabitants of the nearby high-end Southwark scheme.

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