At Crellins Carter, we have significant experience of providing specialist legal advice to landowners in relation to telecoms masts, involving the granting of leases to telecommunication organisations and associated management. We have established links and work closely with the leading telecommunication surveyor’s in the country.
Telecommunication agreements and leases are complicated and we can provide careful negotiation once an agreement has been reached. We provide advice on telecommunications leases including:
- Negotiating heads of terms (in conjunction with telecommunication surveyors)
- Leases
- Lease Renewals
- Assignments and advice on group sharing by telecoms companies
Our lawyers focus on providing commercial and effective solutions to ownership and transactional requirements and help to manage risk. Pragmatic and timely legal advice is crucial in helping you to secure and protect your rights, and exploit them commercially, while minimising any associated risk.
This area of law requires experienced lawyers familiar with both technical details of Telecommunications Law and techniques to counter mobile phone operators attempts to circumvent existing Agreements.
We offer advice on mast sites throughout the country and help landowners understand telecoms lease agreements. This is a fast changing and complex area of law and many Landlords have suffered as a result of taking professional advice in the past from solicitors who have not fully appreciated the Telecommunications Code, which gives telecom companies an appreciable measure of security of tenure. This statutory security of tenure can prevent the termination of agreements, often undermining the long term value of a clients’ property.
If you have been approached by a telecoms company who wishes to erect masts on your land, contact us for advice on your rights. We can negotiate on your behalf and draw up the necessary documentation that protects your best interests. Alternatively if you have an existing mast, you need to consider the impact of the presence of such a mast upon your retained land very carefully, particularly if there is any potential for development of your remaining land. These existing agreements are often over 10 years old and are significantly out of date often leaving Landlords with rental income substantially below that of rents being agreed currently on new phone mast sites.
