Supreme Court backs Neo Bankside residents in Tate Modern ‘snooping’ row

By Jim Dunton2023-02-01T12:46:00

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 10^th 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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