Dear all

I thought that this news item on the BBC might amuse the nuisance anoraks amongst us. A new glass office block has been acting like a huge parabolic mirror and concentrating reflected sunlight on the street causing heat damage to property and general discomfort to those in the vicinity. Bank of New Zealand v Greenwood [1984] 1 NZLR 525 springs to mind. A rare example of the fact that in some cases a nuisance can arise from the mere presence of a building as opposed to any activity conducted within it. I think this is why Lord Lloyd referred to it in Hunter v Canary Wharf [1998] 1WLR 434.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-23950011

Regards

Mark Wilde (Reading University)