Welcome

Over the next year, our Rural team will be shining a light on the future of estates: land use, heritage property, managing succession, tax, green energy, and ecological mitigation. There will be commercial insight on a variety of diversification opportunities.

We see many reasons for optimism for our clients and other landowners and farmers, and, more generally, for businesses in the rural sector. We have come a very long way indeed since the 1960s and 1970s, estate duty and the “Destruction of the Country House”, perhaps the low point for heritage and estates. But there are still challenges to come. The weight is shifting legally towards the tenant in residential and commercial tenancies; public access is more politically charged than at any time since the 1930s; and the economic realities of the shift in the subsidy regime are only beginning to be felt.

We’ll address these issues, while looking forward to imagine what land use, leisure and the environment may look like by the late 2030s.

Through our expert opinion we hope you’ll share the same optimism for what the future holds.