Utilities and infrastructure make property, regeneration, buildings and day-to-day life work for us; they enable us all to connect physically and virtually.
Our specialists are able to deliver and structure documentation, through a partner led approach, to ensure you and your business can connect to everything needed to make your business and your life work. Our team will work with you to understand your utilities and infrastructure requirements, understand your business and minimise risk in delivering what is needed. Timing is essential for delivery and occupation of buildings and projects. Delay means late delivery of infrastructure and delayed occupation/use, potentially the need for interim measures and increased cost for a project. Our specialisms include:
Telecoms and digital infrastructure:
- Agreeing and negotiating terms with telecoms providers and documenting these, to ensure telecoms and digital infrastructure and services are delivered and available. Time is of the essence to ensure infrastructure can be installed and connected at the right time and early involvement in a project is advised
- Agreements for towers, masts and infrastructure
- Implications of the electronic communications code, explaining what the code means and how this impacts on your ability to deliver infrastructure and develop property in future on which telecoms infrastructure is located
Water and waste water:
- Adoption agreements and easements/rights
- Advising owners of canals, rivers and other bodies of water on drainage agreements, to maximise use of the water body as an asset, whilst providing protections for the water body under the legislative framework and otherwise. Issues around increased surface water flooding mean developers are being encouraged to look at drainage other than to the undertaker owned mains systems. Private drainage systems need to be protected from future overloading and other watercourse users need protection from potential contaminants
- Advice on use of water for heating and cooling major infrastructure projects, including abstraction and discharge agreements for power stations and other large projects
Electronic vehicle technology
- Agreements conditional on grid offers
- Reviewing and advising on form of lease for the charging points
- Reviewing site suitability from a legal viewpoint
- Documenting the required rights and occupational interests
Highways
- Adoption agreements and stopping up, also title implications of these.
- Footpaths and bridleways: implications for developing land, stopping up and creation
Energy/renewables
- Network infrastructure agreements for overarching utilities arrangements
- Rights for energy infrastructure
- Substation and gas governor leases and transfers
- Acting for landowners in relation to gas peaking plants, solar farms and battery storage facilities
Transport infrastructure
- Advising airports on all property related issues and infrastructure, both landside and airside
- Rail: advising on building close to railways, impact of title issues and adverse possession claims
We partner with another niche practice to deliver construction and procurement documentation.