Bournemouth: a seaside town with one of Britain’s priciest spits next door.
Bournemouth runs seven miles of beach, the chines and the gardens, a busy conference and stag-and-hen visitor economy — and, a few minutes west around the harbour, Sandbanks and the Poole waterfront, some of the most expensive residential land in the country. That contrast is the whole security picture here: a very public seafront town wrapped around a very private, very valuable stretch of water frontage.
So our Bournemouth work is weighted to residential surveys for the harbour and clifftop houses — where an open aspect to the water is the appeal and the exposure both — with close protection and secure driving through a town that fills in season, and cover for conference and private occasions. Drivers who know the chine roads and the harbour approaches keep an arrival quiet.
An illustrative scenario
The kind of property the harbour produces: a waterfront house whose glass frontage was the reason it was bought and, until surveyed, the reason its routines were legible from the water.
Photo: Bournemouth Pier by Jonathan Hutchins · CC BY-SA 2.0
Local context — the Bournemouth area
The panel is a seafront-and-night-time-economy pattern for the town centre; the harbour and clifftop addresses where our work concentrates read very differently. The exposure worth planning for is visibility and the seasonal crowd, not the ambient figure.
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Nearby
We cover these from the same team and the same vehicles, so a detail that starts in Bournemouth can move between them without a handover.