Oxfordshire: college city, Cotswold estates, and media money.
Oxfordshire runs from the college quads of the city out to the Cotswold-edge estates and the Thames-side wealth around Henley — old country money and newer media and political money living close together. The city itself is busy, bollarded and cycle-first; the countryside beyond is a landscape of manor houses, converted farms and long private drives. It is a county of high profiles held in low-key settings.
So our Oxfordshire work pairs residential surveys for the estates and manor houses — where a long approach and an open aspect are the design and the vulnerability — with discreet close protection for visiting principals and college and cultural events. Secure driving handles a county where the pretty route and the workable route are rarely the same, and the regatta season brings its own predictable spike in profile.
An illustrative scenario
The kind of estate the county produces: one whose seclusion read as security until a survey showed how much of the approach could be watched unremarked.
Photo: The Thames Path in Henley on Thames by Steve Daniels · CC BY-SA 2.0
Local context — the Oxfordshire area
Sampled at Oxford, the figures read as a busy-centre-and-quiet-county mix; the estates where our residential work sits are quiet indeed. The exposure worth planning for is the approach and the routine, not the ambient city-centre count.
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 Oxfordshire can move between them without a handover.