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If a wayleave is granted subject to a condition that the work be completed within six months, who could enforce that condition and how would they do so?

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Published on: 13 April 2023

This Q&A assumes that the wayleave has been granted by agreement. In that case, the wayleave is a licence, usually for service media such as electricity or telephone wires, to cross the grantor’s land (which may include the side of a building). The grantor of the wayleave and possibly their successor in title have the right to enforce the wayleave. That will usually be the freeholder or potentially a long leaseholder.

As for the method of enforcement, the question

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