GTC’s networks are designed to follow public highways or adoptable land wherever possible, to keep land rights requirements to a minimum. This allows GTC (as a statutory undertaker) to rely on their statutory powers to access, inspect and maintain its networks and apparatus.
Where networks are to be laid within land that is not due to be publicly adopted, it may be necessary to obtain further land rights, such as:
- For fixed plants – such as substations, gas Pressure Reduction Installations (PRIs)
- Fibre On Site Convergence Points (OSCP)
- Pumping stations
- Heat hubs
GTC will require ownership rights of the asset in the form of a land transfer or lease (where appropriate) and ‘rights of access’ to the land at all times, in the event of an emergency. We will also require easements over mains within private land, so we have the right to access, lay, inspect, maintain, and repair in perpetuity.