Solar Farm Development Option & Lease Agreements - Everything You Need to Know
Available to view from 13 Nov 2025
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Solar Farm Development Option & Lease Agreements - Everything You Need to Know
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Introduction
Solar farms are a hot topic of conversation in the countryside, with farmers diversifying by developing greenfield sites for solar schemes.
In this webinar, Alastair Frew discusses the key elements of a greenfield solar farm development option and lease, from basic commercial terms to the need to consider site remediation at the end of the term.
What You Will Learn
This webinar will cover the following:
- Solar Panels - an introduction
- Solar Farm Leases:
- Contractual term
- Rent
- Reinstatement
- Decommissioning
- Security bond
- Standard of repair
- Break right
- Security of tenure
- On-site battery storage
- Access easements
- Substations freehold or leasehold?
- Rental terms
- Easements
- Lift and shift
- The Grid Connection
- Direct Agreements
- Biodiversity Net Gain, green credits and crop loss payments
- Inheritance tax and business rates
- Case study
This pre-recorded webinar will be available to view from Thursday 13th November 2025
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