Residents of RSHP’s Neo Bankside flats in Southwark have lost their latest attempt to stop visitors to the Tate Modern gallery “snooping” into their homes from the viewing area of its 10th floor extension.

The Court of Appeal this week rejected their challenge to last year’s High Court ruling that the Herzog & de Meuron-designed viewing gallery did not constitute a nuisance or an affornt to the privacy of residents in the high-end apartments, which have floor-to-ceiling windows.

The residents had complained that Tate Modern visitors looked into their homes with binoculars and took pictures of them, sometimes posting the images on social media. They wanted the Tate Board of Trustees to either close off part of the viewing area, or screen it to give greater privacy and claimed last year’s ruling had been wrong.

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