Letter From The Chancery Group About Rights of Light? | Daylight Protect

The Chancery Group has no connection with Daylight Protect. This is independent information for property owners who have received correspondence from them. All statements about the firm are drawn from its own published material and were checked on 11 June 2026.

If The Chancery Group has written to you, the developer has hired strategists, not just surveyors. The firm positions itself as a strategic adviser on rights of light, with the stated aim of helping clients abate disputes and maintain good relationships, which means the tone of the letter you are holding, however warm, was a deliberate choice made in the developer's interest.

• The Chancery Group (TCG) is a respected independent practice specialising in rights of light and daylight and sunlight, advising developers and landowners on high-value projects across the UK. On this scheme, it acts for the developer.
• "Maintaining good relationships" is a legitimate professional goal. It is also how releases get signed without anyone pausing to ask what the right is worth.
• Match their professionalism, not their framing. Stay courteous, commit to nothing, and get an independent assessment first. Check your claim free of charge.

Who are The Chancery Group?

The Chancery Group, often shortened to TCG, is an independent surveying practice with specialist expertise in rights of light and daylight and sunlight, operating from the City of London and advising on projects across the UK. Its directors are experienced specialists: founding director Oliver Law is a rights of light surveyor of long standing who has appeared on industry panels alongside leading property barristers and lawyers, and the firm describes its clients as including some of the country's most prestigious developers on high-value schemes. Its published positioning emphasises strategic advice, commercial focus, and helping clients abate disputes while keeping relationships intact. That is exactly what a sophisticated developer wants. Understanding it is exactly what a well-advised neighbour needs.

Why does the letter sound so reasonable?

Because reasonableness is the strategy, and it is worth being precise about why. A rights of light dispute that turns hostile is expensive for a developer: positions harden, neighbours seek advice, and the file starts looking like litigation. A dispute that never feels like a dispute, by contrast, resolves itself in friendly correspondence and modest cheques. A firm whose stated aim is abating disputes will write you letters that are courteous, clear and unthreatening, and every word of that courtesy is consistent with you releasing a valuable right for a fraction of its negotiated worth. None of this is improper. It is competent professionals doing their job for their client. The error is mistaking the absence of pressure for the absence of stakes.

What is the letter actually doing?

Underneath the tone, one of the usual jobs. Opening contact and requesting access for a survey, which you should manage on advice rather than refuse, since the conduct of both sides is weighed if matters ever reach court. Notifying you of the scheme and inviting a conversation, often the prelude to a figure. Presenting an offer or a deed of release: the document that permanently extinguishes a right your windows have typically been accruing for 20 years or more under the Prescription Act 1832, and binds every future owner of your home. Or referencing a light obstruction notice under the Rights of Light Act 1959, which carries a statutory clock and belongs in front of an adviser immediately, however gently it was mentioned.

How should I respond to a strategy-led approach?

With strategy of your own, which begins with information. Reply, if a reply is requested, with courtesy and nothing else: no history of your windows, no view on the scheme, no figure, no signature. The relationship the letter wants to build is real and can be useful later, in an actual negotiation, conducted once you know what your claim is worth. What changes the character of that negotiation is not your tone but your position: a developer's strategic advisers calibrate every recommendation to whether the neighbour across the table could credibly enforce their rights. Cordial and properly backed is the strongest combination there is. Cordial and unadvised is the cheapest release they will buy all year.

How can Daylight Protect help?

The Daylight Protect Claim Plan handles your whole claim on a no win, no fee basis. Specialist solicitors act for you, and insurance included in the plan pays the expert bills, the court fees and the other side's costs if the claim fails. Our fee is a percentage of your compensation, paid only when you win. Everything is set out in writing before you start, and if your claim is unsuccessful you pay nothing. The developer bought strategy. This plan is what buys yours.

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Frequently asked questions

Is The Chancery Group's letter genuine?

Yes. TCG is an established, well-regarded independent practice and its correspondence is a normal part of professional development work. Genuine letter, courteous tone, developer's instruction.

They've suggested a friendly chat or a meeting. Should I go?

There is no harm in listening, and refusing outright can read as obstructive. But treat a meeting like correspondence: take advice first, say nothing about your property's history or any figure, and agree to nothing in the room. Friendly settings produce the same binding concessions as formal ones.

If they're trying to avoid a dispute, doesn't that mean I'll be treated fairly?

Avoiding a dispute and paying full value are different goals, and only one of them is their client's. Fair treatment in this market is not a tone; it is a number, and the number depends on what the developer believes you can enforce.

This article is general information about rights of light in England and Wales, not legal advice on your specific circumstances.