Legal advice for landlords and landowners in relation to phone masts and other electronic communications apparatus
The law relating to mobile phone masts and telecommunications sites is complex and requires specialist legal advice if landowners are to protect the income from their sites and avoid potentially serious problems as a consequence of renting their premises to mobile phone operators.
Land or property owners faced with phone mast operators who wish to survey their land or acquire rights over their property need to be very careful as to how they respond if they are to avoid potentially diminishing the value of their assets.
Anyone contemplating redevelopment of land or property upon which a phone mast or other electronic communications apparatus is installed needs to plan long term for the removal of the apparatus. Development of a strategy to remove the mast should be one of the first issues considered, even before seeking planning permission, if project delays further down the line are to be avoided. Removal is likely to require preparation and service of formal statutory notices followed by court action.
In relation to mobile phone masts and other electronic communications apparatus we act exclusively for landlords and landowners. A key question anyone seeking advice in this field should ask of their potential advisers is how many cases have they advised on, what type of issues do they have experience of, in what courts have they taken telecommunications cases and how often?
We can provide specialist professional advice having many years’ experience in the phone mast and telecommunications sector.
Our experience includes representing a wide range of property owners including property investors, corporate occupiers, local authorities, government departments, housing associations, sports clubs, farmers and rural estates to name a few. We have advised on phone masts and sites throughout the country and have particular expertise in the removal of phone masts and other telecommunications apparatus from high value development sites located in and around London.
If you have a phone mast on your property, need to remove one or may be faced with network operators seeking to force their way on to your land it is highly likely that you will need to engage in court action. It is therefore important that you do nothing to prejudice your position. Our guide for property owners can be downloaded here and provides a good start point. For further advice or to discuss any phone mast related issue then please contact us.
Links - Published Articles
- The Digital Economy Act : What surveyors need to know about changes to the law on telecommunications equipment
- Electronic Communications Code - Strategy to respond to a network operator's notice
- Britain’s 5G roll-out – What is plan B?
- New Digital Environments: The Structure of 5G