Letter From eb7 About Rights of Light? What It Means | Daylight Protect

eb7 has no connection with Daylight Protect. This is independent information for property owners who have received correspondence from them. All statements about the firm are drawn from its own published material and were checked on 11 June 2026.

eb7's own positioning explains why their letter arrived: the firm describes its rights of light work as unlocking the development potential of sites by pre-empting constraints and proactively managing risks. If you've received their letter, your property's right to light is one of the constraints being pre-empted.

• eb7 is a substantial, well-regarded specialist consultancy, part of the RSK Group since 2024 and the group's sole rights of light practice after the Waldrams brand closed into it. On this scheme, it acts for the developer.
• "Proactive" engagement has a precise commercial meaning: contact you early, before you know what your rights are worth, because early releases are the cheapest releases.
• The timing of their letter is information. Use it. Get an independent assessment before any substantive reply: check your claim free of charge.

Who are eb7?

eb7 is a London-based specialist property consultancy founded in 2007, focused on rights of light, the related planning discipline of daylight and sunlight, party wall and neighbourly matters, and architectural visualisation. Its senior team includes directors drawn from major property consultancies, including the former Savills neighbourly matters team, and its client work spans complex developments in London and across the UK. In August 2024 eb7 joined RSK Group, a large engineering and environmental services business, and it subsequently became the group's sole rights of light and daylight consultancy when the Waldrams brand was closed and its clients directed to eb7. If your letter carries the eb7 name where you expected another firm's, that consolidation is likely why.

Why is eb7 writing to me before work has even started?

Because that is the strategy working as designed. The firm's published positioning is explicit about pre-empting constraints and managing risks proactively, and in rights of light practice "proactive" means approaching affected neighbours early, often before demolition hoarding goes up, sometimes before you knew a scheme existed. The commercial logic is straightforward and worth stating plainly. A neighbour contacted early has had no advice, doesn't yet know whether their windows hold enforceable rights, can't picture the loss, and has no sense of what certainty is worth to the developer. Releases signed at that moment cost a fraction of releases negotiated later. Early contact is not a courtesy extended to you; it is a discount being taken from you, unless you respond to the timing with knowledge of your own.

What does "pre-empting constraints" mean for my property?

It means your right to light appeared in the developer's risk analysis as something capable of affecting the scheme, whether through compensation, redesign, or in the strongest cases an injunction. Rights of light are private easements, typically established once a window has enjoyed light for 20 years under the Prescription Act 1832, and they survive planning permission entirely. A constraint the developer must pre-empt is, from your side of the fence, an asset the developer must buy. The letter is the opening of that purchase negotiation, drafted by the buyer's professional team, which is precisely why its framing should not be the framing you adopt.

What will the letter ask for?

One of the standard moves. Access: eb7's surveyors measuring your windows so the developer's model rests on data rather than assumption. Take advice, then cooperate on agreed terms, because outright refusal reads poorly if a court ever weighs conduct. Notification with an invitation to engage, sometimes with a figure: the developer's opening number, set by their budget. A deed of release for signature: permanent, binding on every future owner of your home, and the end of all leverage the moment you sign. Or, on some schemes, correspondence touching a light obstruction notice under the Rights of Light Act 1959, the variant with a statutory clock, and the one that should reach a professional adviser the same week it reaches you.

What strengthens my position from here, and what weakens it?

Two things strengthen it: knowledge and credibility. Knowledge means an independent assessment of what rights your property actually holds and what the scheme would take, measured by someone the developer isn't paying. Credibility means the developer's advisers believing your claim can be enforced if they refuse fair terms; claims that visibly cannot reach litigation get priced as inconvenience, not risk. Two things weaken it: signing early, and silence. The first ends the matter on their numbers. The second lets time do their negotiating. As construction advances, courts grow likelier to award damages instead of an injunction, and the developer's team knows the calendar is on their side.

How can Daylight Protect help?

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Frequently asked questions

My earlier correspondence was with Waldrams. Does the change to eb7 affect my position?

No. Waldrams closed as a brand within RSK Group and its work was directed to eb7, so continuity on the developer's side is expected. Your rights are unchanged by their restructuring; only the letterhead is.

Is being contacted early a sign the impact on my light is serious?

It's a sign your property matters to the scheme's risk picture. Developers don't pay specialists to write to neighbours who don't. How serious the impact is can only be answered by independent analysis, not inferred from the envelope's timing.

The letter just asks to "open a dialogue." That sounds harmless. Is it?

Dialogue is how every release begins. Nothing in a friendly opening letter obliges you, but everything you say in that dialogue enters the developer's file. Be courteous, commit to nothing, and get advice before the conversation becomes substantive.

This article is general information about rights of light in England and Wales, not legal advice on your specific circumstances.