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First deal of 2026 – Aurora Power Consulting
First deal of 2026 completed – Aurora Power Consulting has joined Morson Group, with the corporate team at Steele Raymond advising.
16/01/2026
For landowners, farmers, parish councillors, and anyone who cares about keeping rural communities alive.
The village school is closing. The pub takings are down. Young families are packing up and moving to towns where they can actually afford to rent, let alone buy. If you live in the rural South, you’ve seen it happening. It is heartbreaking. It’s the slow hollowing-out of places that have been home to generations, the quiet unravelling of communities that should be thriving.
If this article speaks to something you’ve witnessed or worried about, please pass it to someone who might benefit from reading it – a neighbour, a fellow councillor, a farming family, an employer who’s struggling to keep staff because there’s nowhere for them to live.
Here’s what most people don’t realise: the solutions already exist. The land is there. The need is desperate. What’s missing isn’t permission or possibility – it’s the conversation.
You might be sitting on a plot of gold – and the real value isn’t just financial. It’s what it could mean for the people around you.
If you own land on the South Coast — a field, a paddock, a corner of an estate that’s sat unchanged for years… If you’re a farmer watching milk prices drop again, wondering what comes next for land that’s been in your family for generations, there’s another way forward. If you’re a parish councillor seeing the school roll shrink year after year, there are models that work. If you’re an employer watching good people leave because they can’t find anywhere to live nearby, this is fixable.
The key is early, practical advice. A trusted, local specialist – be it a solicitor or land agent who truly understands the area – doesn’t just ‘handle complexity’, They act as the glue, bringing landowners, parish councils, and housing groups to the same table. They translate the policy, protect your family’s interests, and make sure the project delivers for the community. That’s when you get schemes that feel human. That’s when affordable housing stays affordable. That’s when villages don’t just survive – they stabilise.
This beautiful way of life – the one where you know your neighbours, where children grow up in the place their parents call home, where a community has a beating heart – is worth fighting for. And the fight isn’t as hard as you think.
Because the South Coast is growing. Cities are thriving. But it shouldn’t be at the expense of the villages that make this region what it is.
The solutions are there. The land is there. The need is urgent.
All that’s missing is you.
First deal of 2026 completed – Aurora Power Consulting has joined Morson Group, with the corporate team at Steele Raymond advising.
A new year is the perfect time to take stock, get organised, and set yourself up for success – including with your tax affairs. And this year, there’s a change on the horizon that every landlord, small business owner, and private taxpayer should know about Making Tax Digital (MTD). While it might sound intimidating, the […]
Shared language gives our teams real momentum. From Associates Day to firm-wide book clubs, people learn together, talk openly about pressure and burnout, and turn ideas into practical changes that make daily work more sustainable.
Serious work, human rhythm. From Bournemouth and Southampton to Poundbury, our teams handle heavyweight matters, then step into sea air, green space and short commutes that keep heads clear and careers moving. If you want City level work with South Coast balance, this is where both can happen.
This transaction brings together long‑standing British distribution expertise and the scale of a European market leader.
Ranked Top Tier in The Legal 500 for the 21st year running, Steele Raymond gives businesses, developers and families across the South City calibre judgement with local commitment – helping deals complete, sites progress and families move forward while we protect value and keep momentum.
People often think about houses, savings and heirlooms but don’t have a plan for the photos that hold a thousand moments, the messages they want to keep, and the accounts that pay for daily life.
For landowners, farmers, parish councillors, and anyone who cares about keeping rural communities alive.
First deal of 2026 completed – Aurora Power Consulting has joined Morson Group, with the corporate team at Steele Raymond advising.
A new year is the perfect time to take stock, get organised, and set yourself up for success – including with your tax affairs. And this year, there’s a change on the horizon that every landlord, small business owner, and private taxpayer should know about Making Tax Digital (MTD). While it might sound intimidating, the […]
Shared language gives our teams real momentum. From Associates Day to firm-wide book clubs, people learn together, talk openly about pressure and burnout, and turn ideas into practical changes that make daily work more sustainable.
Serious work, human rhythm. From Bournemouth and Southampton to Poundbury, our teams handle heavyweight matters, then step into sea air, green space and short commutes that keep heads clear and careers moving. If you want City level work with South Coast balance, this is where both can happen.
This transaction brings together long‑standing British distribution expertise and the scale of a European market leader.
Ranked Top Tier in The Legal 500 for the 21st year running, Steele Raymond gives businesses, developers and families across the South City calibre judgement with local commitment – helping deals complete, sites progress and families move forward while we protect value and keep momentum.
People often think about houses, savings and heirlooms but don’t have a plan for the photos that hold a thousand moments, the messages they want to keep, and the accounts that pay for daily life.
For landowners, farmers, parish councillors, and anyone who cares about keeping rural communities alive.