York Road, Tunbridge Wells


southside York Road: Trinity House: former Trinity Church Hall and No. 11 York Road



Trinity House is currently occupied by GLEEDS, Construction Consultants.
Residents, concerned that this company did not wish to get involved in whatever way, took the liberty to inform the National Westminster Plc. having an interest in this Grade II listed building.



9 May 2002

To: DTZ - Mr Tim Rose
3-5 Swallow Place, London W18 4NA

National Westminster Plc property: Trinity House, Church Road, Tunbridge Wells
- HM LAND REGISTRY Title Number: K582419 -

Telephone House Development - Rights of Light

We understand that the NatWest tenants, GLEEDS Construction Consultants, Quantity and Building Surveyors, Cost Engineers, Planning Supervisors and Project Managers, have not informed you of the above issue and have not as yet become involved in the matter of the rights of light with respect to the redevelopment of Telephone House and the resultant infringement of NatWest’s and their tenant’s right of light.

The Telephone House Neighbours Association intends to seek to protect the residents’ rights of light and for this reason we wish to enquire if you are prepared to do the same for NatWest. You will be aware that the land of Trinity House shares a boundary with the Telephone House site.

You will find complete details of the Telephone House development on our internet site : http://uk.geocities/telephonehouse
Of special interest to you will be http://uk.geocities/telephonehouse/shadowdiagram.html where you will find the shadow diagrams submitted by the appellant, which formed part of their ( Crest Nicholson / Southgate Developments [BT] ) planning application. You will see for yourself that they are incorrect with regard to loss of daylight and sunlight, overlooking and overshadowing.

We look forward to hearing from you.





Rights of Light - Loss of Light
for residents living opposite of, and people working next to the Telephone House site, Church Road / York Road


Photos of York Road - Catalogue




What is the future ? -
The re-development of the Telephone House, York Road / Church Road, Tunbridge Wells

update : May 2003