Flat owners win battle to stop Tate Modern visitors peering into their homes

Owners in the Neo Bankside development on the capital’s South Bank took legal action against the gallery

People look out from the viewing platform at Tate Modern, left, which overlooks the residential flats (PA)

The owners of four flats overlooked by the Tate Modern in London have won a Supreme Court privacy bid over the use of the gallery’s viewing platform.

Residents of the Neo Bankside development on the capital’s South Bank took legal action against the gallery’s board of trustees in a bid to stop “hundreds of thousands of visitors” looking into their homes from the Tate’s viewing platform.

They applied for an injunction requiring the gallery to prevent members of the public observing their flats by “cordoning off” parts of the platform or “erecting screening”, to stop what they said was a “relentless” invasion of their privacy.