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Plymouth: a naval city at the edge of the coast’s quiet money.

Plymouth faces the sea — the Hoe, the historic Barbican, the naval dockyard at Devonport, the waterfront and the marinas — a working city that is also the gateway to the South West’s coastal wealth. The money sits along the estuaries and out toward the South Hams and the Cornish border: waterfront houses, sailing families and second homes chosen for exactly the seclusion that a considered survey is worth more to than any camera contract.

So our Plymouth work is mostly residential: protective surveys for the estuary and coastal houses where isolation is the appeal and the weakness, secure driving and close protection across a large, remote region where response time is a function of who is already there, and cover for the sailing season. We plan for distance — in the far South West, that is the whole of the challenge.

An illustrative scenario

The kind of house the estuaries produce: a waterside property whose seclusion read as safety until a survey showed how much of its routine was visible from the water.

Local context — the Plymouth area

The panel reflects a busy waterfront-and-centre pattern; the estuary and coastal houses where our work concentrates read quieter. The exposure worth planning for is the open aspect and the remoteness, not the ambient centre figure.

Recorded crime · May 2026

22

Burglary

25

Vehicle crime

11

Robbery

8

Theft from person

444

Violence

These are anonymised, approximate map-point figures for roughly a one-mile radius — never a specific street, property or person — for the most recent month published. “Violence” is the Home Office “violence and sexual offences” category — a broad measure spanning harassment and common assault through to serious violence, much of it domestic or inside licensed premises. It is not a measure of targeted risk to a protected client.

Property market · the 12 months to May 2026

£227,500

Median sale price

15

Sales at £1m or above

From 3,141 recorded sales. Aggregate figures only — no individual property is identified.

Crime figures: data.police.uk. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Location point: © OpenStreetMap contributors. Property figures: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data. © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

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We cover these from the same team and the same vehicles, so a detail that starts in Plymouth can move between them without a handover.

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