Notting Hill: garden-square privacy on very public streets.

Notting Hill runs two lives at once. Behind the stucco terraces sit the communal garden squares — private, gated, quiet — while a few streets away Portobello Road and the Westbourne Grove strip pull a constant crowd, and every August the carnival turns the district into one of the busiest places in Europe for a weekend. The money here is creative and media-facing, often as visible as the streets it lives on.

So our Notting Hill work pairs residential cover for the garden-square houses — where access runs through a side gate and a briefed household rather than the obvious front door — with close protection and secure driving through streets that crowd without warning. Carnival week is a plan of its own: routes, timings and a household briefed well before the sound systems arrive.