On Wed, 5 Oct 2016 17:11:36 +0100, "Brian-Gaff"
wrote:

I was alerted to something I'd not thought of the other day when on a phone
in a guy was annoyed that the council had passed an application to build a
high rise block so that it would in effect take away his sun for part of the
day, starving his solar panels of light, and he wondered if he could get
compensation for the extra electricity he would use.

snip

I would say 'tough', just like they did to all the people who suffered
poor TV signals (diffraction?) when they built the likes of Canary
Wharf.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunter_v_Canary_Wharf_Ltd

And how many million people have been affected when they dam a river
upstream of them?

What if you put up a wind turbine and then someone else built a tall
building upwind of you. Who would expect compensation for that (apart
from spongers like harry of course). ;-)

Now, impacting someone's physical life directly (right to light) is
one thing, depriving them of an income, especially one earned off the
back of others ... nah.

Cheers, T i m