Georgina Walters

Georgina has deepened her skills in the energy sector by acting for landowners and developers and working closely with land agents. Her main work focus is to negotiate heads of terms and then proceeding to complete option agreements and leases for solar farms, battery storage projects, onshore wind and easements for cable corridors and access routes. She also deals with leases for biomass and anaerobic digestion systems.

Georgina has a broad background in rural and agricultural property as well as Real Estate and has gained substantial experience dealing with farm and land sales and purchases, farm business tenancies, grazing agreements and telecom mast leases.

She applies a cohesive approach to property matters and works alongside accountants and colleagues in private client teams to advise on and implement property transfers for succession and tax planning. Georgina also has substantial real estate experience dealing with landlord and tenant work, development sites, secured lending and enfranchisement work. She is qualified in England and Wales. Before joining Gillespie Macandrew, Georgina practised in Wales for ten years, prior to which she was Head of Department for a firm in the New Forest and worked on the South Coast of England.

Sector experience includes:

• Advising multiple landowners on easement for cabling for onshore wind turbine project in Wales to allow grid connection
• Advising multiple landowners on Option for Leases  and easements for large solar park including battery storage and substation with associated easements for cabling to connect to grid
• Advising on the freehold sale of wind turbine by land owners to third parties
• Advising on planning obligations and infrastructure agreements for multiple large development sites
• Working with landowners to advise on the property implications of business diversification
• Estate management dealing with the granting of estate leases, renewals, licence for alterations and assignments
• On the governments working party for the legal reform of Leasehold Reform of Enfranchisement and Commonhold law.