When a development affects your neighbourhood, get the right advice together

Your Neighbour helps groups of neighbours understand the information, spot shared concerns and work out what they can do next.

Support for groups of neighbours

Working together can help residents build a clearer picture of how a development could affect the neighbourhood and know what questions to ask.

We can help groups:

• Review daylight and sunlight assessments
• Explore potential rights of light issues
• Make sense of technical reports and drawings
• Identify shared concerns and key questions
• Consider whether further technical or legal advice may be needed

Not every property will be affected in the same way, so we can point out where a more individual look might be needed.

Independent review of developer assessments

We can help residents understand daylight and sunlight reports, the properties included in the assessment, the results presented and any limitations or questions that may need to be explored.

Rights of light advice

Where relevant, we can help identify potential rights of light issues, explain the technical assessment process and clarify where individual property circumstances may need to be taken into account.

Daylight, sunlight and planning advice

We can help residents understand how a proposed development may affect natural light, what the developer’s reports say and which technical questions may be relevant to the planning process.

Community and residents’ meetings

Where agreed and appropriate, we can attend residents’ association or community meetings to explain technical issues, answer questions within the scope of our expertise and help the group understand the information available.

Liaison with developers and their advisers

Depending on the agreed service, we can help identify technical questions for the developer’s team and support communication about the findings of relevant assessments.

How collective representation works

Every development is different, so we start by looking at the proposal, the homes affected and the information available. From there, we can agree what support would be useful — whether that’s reviewing a developer’s report, helping residents identify shared concerns or providing technical advice to support the group’s discussions.

Working together can make it easier to ask questions, get advice and share information, while still taking each property’s individual circumstances into account.