[2024] UKUT 216 (LC)

Case No: LC-2020-55

Royal Courts of Justice,

London WC2A

29 July 2024

TRIBUNALS, COURTS AND ENFORCEMENT ACT 2007

ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS CODE – NEW AGREEMENT – renewal of lease of existing site – landlord’s break clause – indemnity – consideration for code rights over green field site – paras 23, 24, 34, Sch.3A, Communications Act 2003

BETWEEN:

EE LIMITED (1)

HUTCHISON 3G UK LIMITED (2)

Claimants

-and-

AP WIRELESS II (UK) LIMITED

Respondent

Telecommunications site at Vache Farm,

Amersham Road,

Chalfont St Giles,

Buckinghamshire

Martin Rodger KC, Deputy Chamber President and

Mrs Diane Martin MRICS FAAV

11-12 June 2024

Oliver Radley-Gardner KC, instructed by Winckworth Sherwood LLP, for the claimants

Toby Watkin KC and Wayne Clark, instructed by Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP, for the respondent

© CROWN COPYRIGHT 2024

The following cases are referred to in this decision:

Cornerstone Telecommunications Infrastructure Ltd v Compton Beauchamp Estates Ltd [2019] UKUT 107 (LC)

Cornerstone Telecommunications Infrastructure Ltd v Fothringham LTS/ECC/2020/007

Cornerstone Telecommunications Infrastructure Ltd v London and Quadrant Housing Trust [2020] UKUT 282 (LC)

EE Ltd and another v The Mayor and Burgesses of the London Borough of Islington [2019] UKUT 53 (LC)

EE Ltd and Hutchison 3G UK Ltd v Affinity Water Ltd [2022] UKUT 8 (LC)

EE Ltd and Hutchinson 3G UK Ltd v Stephenson and another [2022] UKUT 180 (LC)

Fisher v Taylors Furnishing Stores Ltd [1965] 2 QB 78

On Tower UK Ltd v AP Wireless II (UK) Ltd [2022] UKUT 152 (LC)

On Tower UK Ltd v JH and FW Green Ltd [2020] UKUT 348 (LC)

Vodafone Ltd v Hanover Capital Ltd [2020] EW Misc 18 (CC)