3D Models for Daylight & Sunlight and Right to Light

AccuCities 3D City models are routinely used by surveyors and planning consultancies as a base model for Rights of Light and Daylight & Sunlight analyses. Our 3D models of as-built environment represent an accurate and detailed context model. Supplied georeferenced to the British National Grid in CAD solid format, AccuCities 3D models can be easily manipulated and upgraded by the building consultancy or an architect to include facade openings and other features affecting these matters. This allows for a rapid and therefore inexpensive assessments of affected areas, quick and accurate upgrade of the models where more detail is needed.

Consultants using AccuCities 3D models of as-built environments can save days or even weeks from the process, saving their customers both time and money in the planning stage of their developments. Read our Case Studies here.

Rights to Light and Daylight & Sunlight Amenity are two separate neighbourly matters which require consideration. Daylight & Sunlight Amenity is a Planning matter with the final decision as to what is considered acceptable belonging to Local Authorities. However, a Right to Light is an easement, similar to a Right of Way, where opening such as windows, doors or roof lights, can acquire or be granted rights that are protected by law. If the new structure interferes with the existing properties in the amount of sky visible from a specific point in a room of a residential property, an objection could then be raised through the courts. That could lead to the need of financial compensation being paid or in worst case scenario, an injunction being granted to stop the construction process and / or remove the offending part of the development causing the injury.