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Are shutters a reasonable adjustment for light issues?

Hope

 

I am still fighting the Council and Southern Electrical Contracting to get these horrid new lights switched off at midnight, and to get shields fitted. I am getting somewhere with it because they are finally listening, but can't guarantee  that the lights will be switched off in the night where I live.

Many people have complained, not just me, and the cabinet is reviewing the Council policy.

But if the lights do stay on and nothing changes, do you think my Housing Association would permit shutters to be fitted over my windows as a reasonable adjustment? If need be I would pay for them myself.

My Aspergers means I cannot sleep with any light - I am quite sensitive to it.

  • Laughing

    I find if you don't try and laugh at the Nts dog pack pecking order circle world you will crack up. UndecidedSmile

  • I over came the light edge problem with a good set of curtains never drawn and an apron piece at the top, just to block any light out. I put the black out on the outside (inside window) so there would an overhang past the window so no light came in the edges,, you have to install them probably according to aspie instructions.

    I will be amazed if the housing association(shutters) or the light people adjust conditions for you.

    Going to the counseller depends on his connection to the mafia council scum circle, he may be due a favour by Nero and you get a resolution.

    Failing all that a nice juicy social sob story in the local rag, sit in a rented wheelchair for further effect for the photoshoot.

    Lets think of headlines ? .., Autism Girl blinded by lights, Turn off the lights, or my favourite .. Not a bright idea

    Good luck I hope your lights go out Tongue Out 

     

  • @openheart: I think the issue with blackout blinds is the cracks of light around the edges.  If you had one outside the recess that went over the edges of the window by quite a lot (bought a larger size than normally needed) it might work but not if it wasn't as flush as possible against the wall.

  • I still think it is about some daft contractor installing street lights that shouldn't be used in built up areas. The problem of people in flats and apartments in close proximity to the lights must have been considered before.

    Keep pressing for action through your local councillor - by all means the spectre of continental shutters. The sooner your Council wakes up to the blunder the sooner this will be resolved.

  • I was referring to outside the window, wooden shutters, like they have in France. I have blackout blinds and curtains already, but they do not really work - the light gets in around the edges.

  • Hope, I have good set of internal placed black out blinds that really work.

     

  • It sounds like there is progress involving more people than yourself.

    It just depends what has happened here - you might well have a case for getting blinds fitted and probably the Council should pay. 

    I wonder if the contractors used the cheapest high performance lights without regard for flats being adjacent - there's probably either an environmental health regulation or a bye law that requires other types of lighting to be used in proximity to residential. Of course having committed money it'll be hard to get anyone to take responsibility, let alone undo the mess.

    But if other people are now protesting that makes things much easier as you have moved away from being one individual disputing the common need.