In Australian property law is there any right to retain a view?
(Google was not my friend)
Situation: elderly couple living for 50 years in a house with a view of a bay and islands. Always had great neighbours all around them.
New owners have bought the property below them and without any discussion have planted a dense row of fast growing cyprus trees all along their back fence (the elderly people's front boundary) which will grow pretty quickly and completely obliterate the entire view as well as cutting most of the light into their property.
Mediation doesn't exist in their small town so that's not an option I think.
Do they have any legal rights at all?
(Google was not my friend)
Situation: elderly couple living for 50 years in a house with a view of a bay and islands. Always had great neighbours all around them.
New owners have bought the property below them and without any discussion have planted a dense row of fast growing cyprus trees all along their back fence (the elderly people's front boundary) which will grow pretty quickly and completely obliterate the entire view as well as cutting most of the light into their property.
Mediation doesn't exist in their small town so that's not an option I think.
Do they have any legal rights at all?