The Electronic Communications Code 2017 ("the New
Code") has caused a flurry of litigation as landowners,
telecoms providers and also the courts come to grapple with the
questions of how the New Code operates in practice.
One such provider is Cornerstone Telecommunications
Infrastructure Limited, which features in two very recent cases on
the New Code.
The first case, Cornerstone v Compton Beauchamp Estates Limited
[2019] considered the question of whom telecoms operators should
approach in order to gain new rights over land which they are
looking to use for the first time.
Background
Vodafone had a lease of a site owned by Compton for a period of
10 years. The site was on the edge of farm land, near the railway,
and a 15 meter mast, and associated equipment, was placed upon
it.
