Have done some digging. Looks like the house has since been rendered and the side windows are all gone now! Interesting that the boards had been put in during 1915. If something looks odd when you're buying a house, check before you buy! X
Robert Frost captured the spirit of Ms Day perfectly in the poem Mending Wall. The neighbor insists on rebuilding the wall every spring, even though they don’t fence anything in or out. The reason to keep the wall, he says, is that it was there yesterday, it’s there today, so it must be there tomorrow. That’s what his father said, so that’s what he says.
😂 i was just trying to see both sides and think of a reason she would be like that or her father for that matter because he put it up in the first place
One day, she probably wanna build a huge building on that property completely makes sense. But it’s such a crazy law. I know it comes into play in the cities now if someone builds an apartment building, it could ruin your home.
The UK have laws in progress that are dated from the 1700's and are not willing or able to remove them as they might conflict with local situations when these laws were made.
In this case, 52 years after this television report, the problem has probably been resolved naturally for both sides. I don't think that the lady, who was already elderly at the time, is still alive. And in the case of the gentleman, the probability that he is still alive is also rather low...
After thinking on this case a bit, he probably didn’t want to fight too hard about this. Random boards outside your windows are quieter and more private than a giant house or apartments being built mere feet away. Edit… the neighbor was never going to give up her property right to block his light.
A reasonable person could negotiate a compromise. The law seems to be 20 years of uninterrupted light. If she agreed to arrange for the boards to be put up, say, one week of the year she would protect her interest while allowing the chap a decent view.
I would look into when this house was built, see if it was more than twenty years prior to 1915, the reporter called it Victorian, so I'm willing to bet it was built well before 1915, and it doesn't matter who lives in it or if it was empty, the house itself had had more than twenty years of natural light. the old biddys farther can't just decide he's going to block the light just because he felt like it.
@@samking4179 You're incorrect, she was born in 1819, what you should've said was she reigned from 1837 to 1901, btw, it's known as the Victorian era, not the Victorian period. Which doesn't detract from my point, that there's a less than 10% chance that this house was built during the last 6 years of her reign, to make it less than 20 years old.
Surely if someone wants to build a house next door to where the boards are, they could not put windows in that side and build far enough away from that man's house to provide a _garden_ ("yard" to Charlie) next to that side of the 'new' house, giving that man a view through his windows on that side, and by having no windows facing his house there, no views would be further compromised...? I thought the 'ancient lights' thing meant those windows should _not_ have their views / daylight blocked? _She_ blocked _his_ light by insisting the boards be kept in place, surely? I guess I must misunderstand the issue? It just makes _no_ sense. I wonder what's become of that whole issue now, all these years further on? Does anyone know? 😮
the concept is they never had the light in the first place therefore they don't have the 20 year or whatever it was need to enforce. It would never fly now. The tructure would be subject to all sor of planing an building regulations.
It sounds like they got around it by erecting that window blocker when the house was vacant. Basically it is to stop HIM invoking the ancient lights law in the future, if she was to build a giant house on the block. If he had natural light through those windows for 20 years and she decided to build a house that blocked said light, he could say no.
But could you write a contract, the guy old Abraham Lincoln there saying that he will never use that law and that he gives up all right to ancient light law?
This is as if Monty Python was real life. the scene of her cleaning her window could have been played by Eric Idle
Have done some digging. Looks like the house has since been rendered and the side windows are all gone now! Interesting that the boards had been put in during 1915. If something looks odd when you're buying a house, check before you buy! X
Daylight robbery…
Robert Frost captured the spirit of Ms Day perfectly in the poem Mending Wall. The neighbor insists on rebuilding the wall every spring, even though they don’t fence anything in or out. The reason to keep the wall, he says, is that it was there yesterday, it’s there today, so it must be there tomorrow. That’s what his father said, so that’s what he says.
"Protect her investment" is the most 'merican thing I've heard for a while.
😂 i was just trying to see both sides and think of a reason she would be like that or her father for that matter because he put it up in the first place
@@ItsCharlieVest it is a universal thing, ever country. it can be solve by just talking to the person and writing a contract.
One day, she probably wanna build a huge building on that property completely makes sense. But it’s such a crazy law. I know it comes into play in the cities now if someone builds an apartment building, it could ruin your home.
Makes sense. Thank you!
The UK have laws in progress that are dated from the 1700's and are not willing or able to remove them as they might conflict with local situations when these laws were made.
In this case, 52 years after this television report, the problem has probably been resolved naturally for both sides. I don't think that the lady, who was already elderly at the time, is still alive. And in the case of the gentleman, the probability that he is still alive is also rather low...
Do i see this good, did you loose your dredds? 😮😮
Looks really good!😊
Been away sick for a while so did not notice.😊
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I would have simply painted the boards with clear varnish (transparent varnish)
.... 😉 😁
The guy looks like Lincoln, but you look like actors from Apocalipto movie.😂
maybe when i had my dreads lol
After thinking on this case a bit, he probably didn’t want to fight too hard about this.
Random boards outside your windows are quieter and more private than a giant house or apartments being built mere feet away.
Edit… the neighbor was never going to give up her property right to block his light.
A reasonable person could negotiate a compromise. The law seems to be 20 years of uninterrupted light. If she agreed to arrange for the boards to be put up, say, one week of the year she would protect her interest while allowing the chap a decent view.
But there is a window on the side that isn’t covered, so there still couldn’t be a house built there xD
That's messed up
yeah it's a weird situation
I would look into when this house was built, see if it was more than twenty years prior to 1915, the reporter called it Victorian, so I'm willing to bet it was built well before 1915, and it doesn't matter who lives in it or if it was empty, the house itself had had more than twenty years of natural light. the old biddys farther can't just decide he's going to block the light just because he felt like it.
1837 - 1901 was when Queen Victoria was alive. that is the "Victorian" period.
@@samking4179 You're incorrect, she was born in 1819, what you should've said was she reigned from 1837 to 1901, btw, it's known as the Victorian era, not the Victorian period. Which doesn't detract from my point, that there's a less than 10% chance that this house was built during the last 6 years of her reign, to make it less than 20 years old.
Surely if someone wants to build a house next door to where the boards are, they could not put windows in that side and build far enough away from that man's house to provide a _garden_ ("yard" to Charlie) next to that side of the 'new' house, giving that man a view through his windows on that side, and by having no windows facing his house there, no views would be further compromised...?
I thought the 'ancient lights' thing meant those windows should _not_ have their views / daylight blocked?
_She_ blocked _his_ light by insisting the boards be kept in place, surely?
I guess I must misunderstand the issue? It just makes _no_ sense.
I wonder what's become of that whole issue now, all these years further on? Does anyone know? 😮
the concept is they never had the light in the first place therefore they don't have the 20 year or whatever it was need to enforce. It would never fly now. The tructure would be subject to all sor of planing an building regulations.
It sounds like they got around it by erecting that window blocker when the house was vacant.
Basically it is to stop HIM invoking the ancient lights law in the future, if she was to build a giant house on the block.
If he had natural light through those windows for 20 years and she decided to build a house that blocked said light, he could say no.
I wonder if that is still the case.. today
But could you write a contract, the guy old Abraham Lincoln there saying that he will never use that law and that he gives up all right to ancient light law?
Also, do you think that is when they went up after the prior Owner that’s the part I can’t figure out
Not very keen on his 1972 improvements , a shame he didn't leave the Victorian fireplaces etc.
Just a stubborn old awkward woman who wants to play a power game.
Move your windows
It is dumb because it not as if there isn't ample land to build on that wouldn't cast a shadow. There is also a window not covered by this.
He pays 3500 quid for the house ffs .
Quit moaning