Owners of luxury flats overlooked by Tate Modern win privacy battle
Owners of £2m luxury flats overlooked by Tate Modern win Supreme Court privacy battle over art gallery’s viewing platform to stop ‘hundreds of thousands’ of visitors peering through their windows
- Residents of flats overlooked by the Tate Modern have won their privacy battle
- The owners said ‘hundreds of thousands’ of people could look into their flats
Owners of four flats overlooked by the Tate Modern have won their Supreme Court privacy battle over the gallery’s viewing platform, overturning decisions made in the High Court and Court of Appeal.
Residents of luxury flats on London’s South Bank launched a legal bid close down the viewing platform in the art gallery which allows ‘hundreds of thousands’ of museum visitors to look inside their homes.
They first applied for an injunction in 2017 requiring the Tate to cordon off parts of the platform or to erect screening to block the views of their homes to stop what they said was a ‘relentless’ invasion of their privacy.
They lost the last stage of their fight at the Court of Appeal in February last year, when a judge agreed with a previous High Court decision which suggested the owners could simply ‘lower their solar blinds’ or ‘install privacy film (or) net curtains’.
The viewing platform seems to give a perfect view of Neo Bankside apartments (pictured)
A photograph taken from the viewing platform in 2016 shows how visitors can see into the apartments at Neo Bankside (pictured, Mail on Sunday’s Charlotte Wallace showing how visible residents are)
However, in a ruling on Wednesday, the Supreme Court ruled by a three-to-two majority in the residents’ favour.
The owners had argued that the platform goes against their right to privacy, as enshrined by Article 8 of the European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR).
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A graphic showing the locations of the multi-million pound flats (pictured right) and the viewing platform (left)
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