Bio
Alison is a Mines & Minerals Partner.
Alison advises operators and landowners across the minerals and waste industry.
She also acts for corporate clients on estate management matters including plant lease, lease renewals, break rights, exercising options, and granting easements.
Her expertise includes dealing with freehold and leasehold acquisitions and disposals, and advising on options for acquisition conditional on planning.
Alison also acts on disposals post-extraction and restoration, advises potential future development, supports with securing overage, and advises on mineral ownership and mineral trespass claims.
She also has experience in dealing with large-scale Land Registry voluntary mineral registration applications.
Examples of Alison’s work include:
- Advising on minerals acquisitions, acting for both operators and landowners from the outset of transactions and supporting other professional teams in the negotiation and settling of heads of terms.
- Overseeing the negotiation and granting of mineral options generally conditional on the grant of planning permission, including the negotiation of the terms of the minerals lease.
- Acting for mineral operators on the disposal of surface land either due to surplus requirement or post-extraction and restoration, and overseeing the imposing of overage and other covenants to ensure the benefit of any uplift in value added if the land is developed in the future.