Telecoms

Property, planning and construction considerations are fundamental to the successful deployment and retention of telecommunication apparatus and the running of complex estates. We ensure contracts address landlord and tenant obligations, Electronic Communications Code (ECC) rights, and planning or construction constraints affecting installation, access, co-location and future upgrades, while our expertise allows us to view transactions through a development and regeneration lens to flag any immediate or potential future issues which could impact operators and/or developers.

Where infrastructure is shared, we align site rights, access arrangements and operational responsibilities with the wider commercial and delivery model. Our experience includes advising major telecoms operators and infrastructure providers on planning strategy, permitted development rights, deployment of 5G infrastructure, protection of operational assets and complex estate and asset management issues.

We have significant experience advising a wide range of public and private sector landowners — including central government bodies, residential management companies and pension funds — on infrastructure sited on their land, covering the negotiation of Code agreements, portfolio analysis and the management of apparatus where redevelopment, regeneration or disposal is in prospect.

Experience

Supporting a national telecommunications operator with property and asset management matters across England and Wales, including telecommunications infrastructure assets, deep-level tunnels, subsea cable infrastructure, data centre deployment programmes and strategic estate management.

Advising major telecommunications operators and infrastructure providers on planning, consenting and asset protection matters, including mast development, small cell deployment, ancillary equipment, telecommunications towers and wider network infrastructure.

Advising on the deployment of 5G infrastructure across operational estates and public infrastructure, including planning, site acquisition, installation and integration of network equipment within complex and sensitive environments.

Advising telecommunications operators on asset protection strategies where critical infrastructure is affected by redevelopment, compulsory acquisition, regeneration schemes and competing infrastructure projects, ensuring continuity of operational assets and network services.

Advising a telecommunications operator on the rollout of a fibre broadband installation across a new build residential estate, including land referencing audits and negotiating a suite of ECC agreements.

Advising a central government body on the review and renegotiation of existing ECC agreements with operators in connection with the proposed redevelopment of a flagship government building in Central London.

Acting as the 'go to' legal adviser for a Midlands local authority in respect of approaches by operators for a range of assets, including building safety redevelopment works for a portfolio of mixed residential buildings.