Helen Thring
Marketing & Operations Manager
Helen is Nick’s sister and she successfully set up and established our Lettings Department back in 2013. Having spent much of her career prior to DY working in marketing, Helen now heads up our Marketing & Operations department. This suits her organisational skills, creativity and keen eye for detail perfectly! She loves taking long walks with her Labrador Finn and when time permits, travelling and visiting new places around the globe.
Top of my bucket list is…
To visit more new countries and ultimately, travel round Europe in a camper van.
My guilty pleasure…
Ben & Jerry’s cookie dough ice cream – I’ve got a very sweet tooth, for my sins.
When I was younger, I wanted to be…
Less shy.
If I were a superhero, my superpower would be…
To find a cure for cancer and dementia. Here’s hoping.
On Sunday morning, you can usually find me…
Up bright and early for a dog walk!
You might be surprised to know that…
One of my earliest qualifications as a teenager was as a Clarks trained shoe fitter. Ohh, all those back to school shoes!
27 Apr 2017
A Right to light is an easement allowed for in English law. When it exists, It gives the owner of a building with windows a right to maintain the existing level of illumination. It is based on Ancient Lights law.
Rights of Light may be acquired by ‘anyone who has had uninterrupted use of something over someone else’s land for 20 years without consent, openly and without threat, and without interruption for more than a year.’
A landowner’s right to light is protected under common law, adverse possession and in England and Wales by the Prescription Act 1832.
The most common reason for a Rights to Light claim is where a neighbour extends their home or a larger development on adjacent land is proposed. If the new development is likely to reduce historic rights to light then the adjacent landowner might apply for an injunction to prohibit the proposed development or amend its design. Alternatively, there might be a solution if the owner of land accommodating the proposed development makes a compensatory payment. In some cases the court might impose changes on a completed development, although this is unusual.
The law relating to Rights to Light is a specialist area and if you are proposing a development on your land or there is development proposed on land adjacent to your own, you should consult an expert for initial advice.
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