2) Loss of sunlight
This is the impact of ‘shadows’ that are created when new buildings or potentially trees/shrubs block ‘direct sunlight’.
Architects should consider the effect of shadows and work to minimise them. Where shadows do occur architects should create a design that seeks to keep the shadows within their own curtilage.
Considerations also need to be made for the lower position of the sun during winter. And also the benefits of ‘solar gains’ for South facing windows.
If a development is going to cast shadows on an adjacent garden, or the windows of downstairs habitable rooms (eg living rooms) then this can form a refusal reason for a planning application. However, if the shadow falls on the windows of the kitchen, hall, bedroom or bathroom then the loss of sunlight is not deemed to be so important.
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