Wayleaves, Easements & Compulsory Purchase
Our agents can act on your behalf to minimise disruption and maximise compensation when access to your land is required.
Increasingly, statutory undertakers and service providers exercise their legal rights of access to private land to install, repair, upgrade, and maintain energy, transport, and environmental infrastructures.
Before entering any wayleave, easement or compulsory purchase arrangement or agreement, it is sensible to take proper advice. Our agents will ensure that the landowner or tenant is properly compensated, with the relevant developers or utility providers usually covering our fees where we act on your behalf. Compensation claims also arise where an authority has a right of compulsory purchase over land, for example, to widen a road, lay a pipeline or supply, or install infrastructure to a development.
Our agents are experienced in all areas of negotiating rent, damage compensation, compound licenses as well as terms for compulsory acquisition of land and will do all we can to ensure you receive a maximum payout at no cost to you.
Examples of matters dealt with by our agents include:
- Telecommunication Companies
- Water Companies
- Electricity Companies
- Gas Companies
- Highway Agency
- Environment Agency
- Local Authorities
- Oil Companies
- Renewable Energy Developers
In most of the above examples, developers and authorities are required to meet the cost of our fees where we act on your behalf.
Meet the Wayleaves, Easements & Compulsory Purchase Team
Chris Powell
Partner
Devizes
MRICS FAAV
Department: Devizes Rural and Agricultural, Rural and Agricultural, Professional,
Speciality: Agricultural Tenancies, Agricultural Appraisals, Agriculture, Biodiversity Net Gain, BPS, Contract Farming, Development Land, Diversification, Estate Management, Farm Business Tenancies, Farms and Land, Grass Keep, Option Agreements, Options, Preparation of Plans for Land Registry, Promotions, Rural Grants and Subsidies, Tax Planning, Succession Planning
01380 710535
07375 370163
cpowell@symondsandsampson.co.uk
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Jack Edwards
Partner
Salisbury
MRICS FAAV
Department: Rural and Agricultural, Professional, Salisbury Rural and Agricultural
Speciality: Agricultural Tenancies, Agricultural Appraisals, Agriculture, BPS, Compensation, Contract Farming, Diversification, Easements, Estate Management, Farm Business Tenancies, Farms and Land, Grass Keep, Option Agreements, Planner, Probate, RICS Registered Valuer, RICS Valuer, Rural Grants and Subsidies, Valuations, Valuations for Banks, Wayleaves
01722 334323
07747 888385
jedwards@symondsandsampson.co.uk
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Lester Williams
Partner, Auctioneer
Frome Market, Sherborne
MRICS FAAV
Department: Frome Market Rural and Agricultural, Sherborne Rural and Agricultural, Rural and Agricultural, Professional
Speciality: Agricultural Tenancies, Agricultural Appraisals, Agriculture, Biodiversity Net Gain, Boundary Disputes, BPS, Compensation, Compulsory Purchase, Contract Farming, Diversification, Easements, Energy, Estate Management, Farm Business Tenancies, Farms and Land, Grass Keep, Preparation of Plans for Land Registry, Probate, RICS Registered Valuer, RICS Valuer, Rural Grants and Subsidies, Tax Planning, Telecoms, Valuations, Valuations for Banks, Wayleaves
01935 818513
07778 646031
lwilliams@symondsandsampson.co.uk
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Lucy Carnell
Rural Partner
Yeovil
MRICS
Department: Yeovil Rural and Agricultural, Rural and Agricultural, Professional
Service: BPS, Compensation, Compulsory Purchase, Easements, Farms and Land, Grass Keep, Preparations of Plans for Land Registry, Probate, RICS Registered Valuer, RICS Valuer, Rural Grants and Subsidies, Valuations, Wayleaves
01935 382901
07940 256550
lcarnell@symondsandsampson.co.uk
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George Whittaker
Rural Partner
Dorchester, Poundbury Burraton House
AssocRICS FAAV MNAVA
Department: Rural and Agricultural, Dorchester Rural and Agricultural, Burraton Rural and Agricultural, Professional
Speciality: Agricultural Tenancies, Agricultural Appraisals, Agriculture, Biodiversity Net Gain, BPS, Contract Farming, Diversification, Estate Management, Farm Business Tenancies, Farms and Land, Grass Keep, Planner, RICS Registered Valuer, RICS Valuer, Rural Grants and Subsidies, Telecoms, Valuations
01305 236578
gwhittaker@symondsandsampson.co.uk
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Sam Haskell
Rural Chartered Surveyor
Sturminster Newton
MRICS FAAV
Speciality: Agricultural Tenancies, Agricultural Appraisals, Agriculture, Farm Business Tenancies, Grass Keep, Preparation of Plans for Land Registry, Probate, RICS Registered Valuer, RICS Valuer, Rural Grants and Subsidies, Tax Planning, Valuations, Valuations for Banks
01258 472244
shaskell@symondsandsampson.co.uk
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Sarah Vere
Head of Tiverton Professional
Tiverton
MRICS FAAV
Department: Rural and Agricultural, Tiverton Rural and Agricultural, Professional
Speciality: Agricultural Tenancies, Agricultural Appraisals, Agriculture, BPS, Compensation, Compulsory Purchase, Contract Farming, Diversification, Farm Business Tenancies, Farms and Land, Grass Keep, Preparation of Plans for Land Registry, Rural Grants and Subsidies
01884 218911
svere@symondsandsampson.co.uk
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