We specialise in obtaining compensation settlements for landowners and occupiers who have had their land disrupted by a utility company taking entry under statute to lay a pipeline for water, gas, oil, drainage or other purposes.

Statutory legislation in each case varies enormously with water companies benefiting from wide sweeping powers under the Water Industry Act 1991 and the Water Act 1991 and gas companies benefiting from powers conferred to them under the Gas Act 1986 as amended by the Gas Act 1995.

Other statutory undertakers may in some cases make use of the Pipelines Act 1962. Rights are also given in the Land Powers (Defence) Act 1958 for the acquisition in some cases of oil installations and pipelines related to them.

In some cases each specific Act of Parliament has its own compensation provisions but in many cases compensation falls back to the ”market value rules” as set out in the Land Compensation Act 1961.