Dorset: one of Britain’s priciest shorelines, and deep country behind it.
Dorset pairs an extremely expensive coast with a quiet agricultural interior. Sandbanks and the Poole harbour shore hold some of the most valuable residential land in the country; the Jurassic Coast runs west through Swanage and Lulworth to Lyme; and inland, around Dorchester, Sherborne and the Blackmore Vale, the money is old, landed and thoroughly private. Two very different security pictures in one county.
So our Dorset work splits accordingly: protective surveys for the harbour and clifftop houses, where a glass frontage to the water is the appeal and the exposure both, and for the inland estates where a long approach is the issue instead. Secure driving covers a rural county of real distances, and discreet close protection handles the sailing season and private occasions.
An illustrative scenario
The kind of property the harbour produces: a waterfront house whose outlook was the reason it was bought and, until surveyed, the reason its routines were legible from the water.
Photo: Sherborne - The George by Colin Smith · CC BY-SA 2.0
Local context — the Dorset area
Sampled at Dorchester, recorded crime is low — a rural county town rather than a high-incident centre. Most of our work here is preventative: the exposure is the open aspect, the seasonal crowd and the distance, not any wave of incidents.
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 Dorset can move between them without a handover.