{"id":832,"date":"2010-04-15T10:09:34","date_gmt":"2010-04-15T10:09:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.singleaspect.org.uk\/?p=832"},"modified":"2025-11-22T11:49:23","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T11:49:23","slug":"north-facing-single-aspect-flats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/singleaspect.org.uk\/?p=832","title":{"rendered":"North facing single aspect flats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/singleaspect.org.uk\/php\/vue_sun.php\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-855\" style=\"border: 0pt none;\" title=\"Vue2 winter\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/singleaspect.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/vue_sun.jpg\" width=\"365\" height=\"260\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Following my study of the A2Dominion developments around the South East I did a study on <a href=\"https:\/\/singleaspect.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/4340fd03d01.pdf\">Vue2 at Bletchley<\/a> (near the station) and the results may be seen below:-<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>From August 17th 2008 until April 20th 2009 the sun never rose within sight of Vue2 NNW facing flats<\/li>\n<li>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<\/li>\n<li>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<\/li>\n<li>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<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"\/?p=12400\">for photos and more details click here<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">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.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">We&#8217;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 -&gt;<a href=\"https:\/\/singleaspect.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/sunlight_aus.pdf\">Sunlight_Aus.pdf<\/a>&lt;-<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>NOTE:<\/strong> 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.\u00a0 The reverse of the situation here in the UK.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>a2dominion north facing single aspect flats<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-housing-design"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/singleaspect.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/singleaspect.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/singleaspect.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/singleaspect.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/singleaspect.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=832"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/singleaspect.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27809,"href":"https:\/\/singleaspect.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832\/revisions\/27809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/singleaspect.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/singleaspect.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/singleaspect.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}