Telecoms portfolio management across your sites
Telecoms portfolio management becomes genuinely challenging once you are dealing with multiple sites across a region or the country. We represent landowners operating at exactly that scale, and effective management is important, protecting your organisation’s core activities while we manage relationships with operators on your behalf.
Mobile Network Operators hold certain statutory rights under the Electronic Communications Code, regulated by OFCOM. The courts can extend these rights further through discretionary powers, and the result can sit at odds with what a landowner needs from an operational or reputational perspective.
We see this regularly when advising police forces, fire and rescue services, and water companies, all of whom must protect their core operations first. Charities and local authorities often raise a related concern: the reputational impact of operators seeking an imposed agreement through the courts rather than engaging in proper consultation.
Navigating the new Code across a property portfolio takes specialist knowledge, not just of the legislation itself, but of how it plays out across sites with different uses and sensitivities. We have built that experience through advising both public and private sector portfolios, so you receive advice grounded in how these situations actually unfold, not just in theory.
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Robert Hepworth
MRICS
Common questions about telecoms portfolio management
MNOs, licensed by OFCOM, hold certain statutory rights to access and use land for their equipment. Courts can extend these rights further through discretionary powers, which can sit at odds with what a landowner needs operationally or reputationally.
We act as the point of contact between you and the operators, protecting your core activity while handling negotiations and agreements consistently across your whole portfolio, rather than treating each site as an isolated case.
These organisations have operational or reputational requirements that don’t always align with an operator’s statutory rights. We regularly advise police forces, fire and rescue services and water companies on protecting their core operations while managing telecoms agreements.
Yes, in some circumstances, operators can apply to the courts for an imposed agreement rather than negotiating directly. This is a particular concern for charities and local authorities, who may face reputational risk if proper consultation hasn’t happened first.
Yes. It takes knowledge of how the new Code plays out differently across sites with different uses and sensitivities, not just the legislation itself. We’ve built that experience across both public and private sector portfolios.
Please contact a member of our Telecoms Team to discuss how we can help you
Offices in Battle, Haywards Heath, Pulborough, Surrey Hills and Tunbridge Wells.
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