Cornwall: second-home money at the end of the country.
Cornwall's wealth is coastal and seasonal — Rock and Padstow on the Camel, the Fal and Helford estuaries, St Mawes and the sailing water, the surf coast toward Constantine — where London families keep houses that stand empty for much of the year and full for a few intense weeks. The county is long, the A30 is the spine, and help of any kind is a genuine distance away, which changes the whole calculation.
So our Cornwall work is residential and logistical: protective surveys for the estuary and coastal houses, where an empty-looking property and a visible routine are the two real exposures, secure driving across a county of long distances, and close protection planned honestly around who is already in the region. Season cover handles the weeks when the house is full and the village is fuller.
An illustrative scenario
The kind of house the estuaries produce: one whose emptiness out of season was as legible from the water as its occupancy was in it.
Photo: St Michael's Mount II5302 x 2982 by Fuzzypiggy · CC BY-SA 3.0
Local context — the Cornwall area
Sampled at Truro, recorded crime is low — a small cathedral city in a rural county. The exposure worth planning for is the seasonal-empty property and the distance to any response, which a survey and good routine address far better than the figures suggest.
Crime figures: data.police.uk. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Location point: © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Nearby
We cover these from the same team and the same vehicles, so a detail that starts in Cornwall can move between them without a handover.