‘If you’re worried about gawpers, pull down the blinds’

Wealthy residents who claim the Tate Modern viewing platform violates their privacy should put blinds in their windows, the Supreme Court heard. The owners of four luxury apartments in the South Bank block have mounted a battle to close down the gallery which allowed ‘hundreds of thousands’ of visitors to peer into their homes. They applied for an injunction requiring the Tate to cordon off parts of the gallery or to erect screening to block their view of the Neo…