Single Aspect Blog

Following my study of the A2Dominion developments around the South East I did a study on Vue2 at Bletchley (near the station) and the results may be seen below:-

• From August 17th 2008 until April 20th 2009 the sun never rose within sight of Vue2 NNW facing flats
• On midsummers day the NNW facing flats would get just 2 hours of sunlight from the East at a time when most people would be asleep, and a maximum of five hours from the west
• On 11-11-2009 the sun sets along the alignment of Vue2 and for two months it is not to be seen from the west, until 11-1-2010
• The longest the sun is visible from the west will be at the summer solstice from 16:23 to sunset at 21:29, just over five hours

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Bear in mind that with only marginal differences the results will be the same for any given year. The fact that I had to choose specific dates and times in order to plot the sun does not alter the fact that this situation is repeated annually.

We’re not the only ones worried about sunlight issues, while researching single aspect dwellings on the web I found the following document about Australian regulations relating to sunlight ->Sunlight_Aus.pdf<-

NOTE: Please be aware that in the Southern hemisphere the sun shines from the North not the South, and so in Australia a North facing single aspect flat will be sunny but a South facing one will be dark.  The reverse of the situation here in the UK.