If your neighbor had planning approval on building that would not shade your yard, and then built something that would never have been approved because it shades your yard, reducing your enjoyment of your yard and the value of your house, what’s your position?
I disagree with the intention to regulate such inane details of private land ownership, especially in the city. I wouldn't buy a house with the expectation that my view or my exposure to sun would be perpetually protected by the municipal government.
That said, I also can't buy a house, likely never will be able to, and most likely won't want to, all partly because of such absurd bureaucracy. It's difficult to imagine being so petulant as to seek justice about such a thing unless it made my private garden unworkable. I shouldn't have a hand in what my neighbor paints their house, and that's probably more closely related than the hypothetical silly examples I established. If they literally painted a swastika, well k I guess that's an edge case.
