This project was carried out to investigate the likely daylight conditions for the neighbouring properties surrounding Station House, Crouch End, London.

The scope of this work was to determine the effects of the daylight conditions to be expected by the implementation of the proposal put forward for planning permission. The objective of the design was to maximise the site potentials whilst allowing natural light accessed by the neighbouring buildings to be minimally affected.

The final objective of this study was to verify that the new proposal does not have a Vertical Sky Component (VSC) of less than 80% of the existing building to correspond with the percentage recommended by the BRE (Building Research Establishment) for the related to new buildings.

Daylighting simulations were performed using state of the art computer modelling software (Ecotect) to predict the external daylight levels. These indicated that the VSC was no less than 80% of the existing VSC value.

The VSC to neighbouring properties with the proposal in place is at worst 90% of the the VSC without the proposal. At best the proposal creates a VSC which is 96% of the condition without the building. In both cases these values are well within the BRE recommendations.