Supreme Court backs Neo Bankside residents in Tate Modern challenge

View from Tate Modern Switch House into Neo Bankside

Ruling overturns earlier decisions on nuisance caused by Herzog & de Meuron-designed viewing gallery

Residents of RSHP’s Neo Bankside flats in Southwark have triumphed in their legal challenge over visitors to the Tate Modern gallery’s Herzog & de Meuron-designed extension “snooping” into their high-end homes.

In a ruling handed down today, the Supreme Court said a 2019 High Court decision in the case was wrong and that the Court of Appeal had been wrong to uphold it the following year.

Residents of the Neo Bankside flats – which cost from £2m-£19m - had complained that visitors to the 10th floor viewing platform of Tate Modern’s Blavatnik Building extension, previously known as Switch House, looked into their homes with binoculars and took pictures of them.

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