We live in a victorian terrace, kitchens are out the back downstairs and the bathrooms (when the houses were built) in a single storey off the kitchen with a sloped roof (highest near house, lowest near garden IYSWIM), down a step from the kitchen.
The neighbours are having their old bathroom knocked down and replaced with a new one with the floor at the same height as the kitchen, and the roof starting a lot higher up the house. This means that there is now virtually no light going to be able to get into our kitchen window - there's a pic of the view of half built extension now on my profile, there's a fence then the breezeblocks. The fence is the same height between all the houses but usually the bathrooms are low (down the step) and the roof line is lower than the fence so it doesn't block the light. Because the extension was only a bit bigger in terms of ground space than the old one, they've not had to get planning permission - in fact the first we knew of it was guys coming to knock down the old bathroom.
Does this mean there's nothing we can do about it, and just have to live with a dark kitchen? The view I know we can't complain about, but the kitchen is pretty dark at the best of times and now hardly any light will get in at all. Any ideas as to how to make things lighter? We did have plans to redo the kitchen at some point and put in a bigger window, but if the majority of the light is going to be blocked anyway, hardly seems any point...