Macvere Land Rights
Water and wastewater land rights.
Electricity receives most of the attention in land rights. Water and wastewater cause as many delays. A pumping station needs a lease. A rising main needs an easement. An adopted network needs an asset transfer with the right access and maintenance rights, and the potable and foul consents usually need to complete together or the adoption stalls.
Macvere Land Rights manages water and wastewater consents for NAVs, water and sewerage companies, developers and the law firms acting for them, on the same fixed-scope, portal-tracked basis as our electricity work.
What we manage
Water and wastewater consents
The consent package for an adopted water or wastewater network, including the asset transfer, handled as one transaction so the potable and foul elements complete together.
Pumping station and treatment site leases
Leases and transfers of pumping station and treatment site compounds, with the access, service and ancillary rights the undertaker or NAV requires for adoption.
Pipe and sewer easements
Easements for water mains, rising mains and sewers crossing third-party land, drawn to Land Registry standards and verified against the adopting network's requirements.
NAV schemes
New Appointments and Variations bring their own land rights requirements. We work to the NAV's documents and the host water company's requirements so the adoption is not held up by consents drawn for the wrong party.
Rights that match the network
Where a pumping station sits, how a rising main is routed and whether a sewer crosses a neighbour's land are engineering decisions with legal consequences. We work from the approved design and the adopting undertaker's requirements, so the rights granted match what is built and nothing has to be revisited at adoption.
FAQs
Do the water and wastewater consents have to complete together?
They do not have to, but it is usually better if they do. Where they are concluded in the same transaction, there is one plan, one negotiation and one completion. Where they are split, each becomes its own instruction.
Do you act for NAVs as well as the incumbent water companies?
Yes. We prepare plans and manage consents to the NAV's requirements and to the host water company's requirements, whichever party is adopting.
Can you handle the electricity and water land rights on the same scheme?
Yes. One instruction, one portal and one named contact for every consent the scheme needs.
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