The owners of four flats overlooked by the Tate Modern have won a Supreme Court battle to stop visitors gawping through their windows 'like being on display in a zoo”
The owners of the flats opposite the Tate Modern have won a legal battle over their privacy.The owners of four flats overlooked by the Tate Modern in London have won a Supreme Court battle to stop visitors gawping through their windows "like being on display in a zoo".
Read more: Dad told daughters ‘mummy’s lost’ as pal of missing mum Nicola Bulley says ‘we just want her home’ Lord Leggatt found that the Tate Modern's viewing gallery is not a "normal" use of the museum's land and is a legal "nuisance" to the flat owners. However, he added: "The nature and extent of the viewing of the claimants' flats goes far beyond anything that could reasonably be regarded as a necessary or natural consequence of the common and ordinary use and occupation of the Tate's land."
But Lord Leggatt said in Wednesday's ruling: "The claimants cannot be obliged to live behind net curtains or with their blinds drawn all day, every day to protect themselves from the consequences of intrusion caused by the abnormal use which the Tate makes of its land."
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