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Sussex: Downland estates, and a summer of very public occasions.

Sussex runs from the Ashdown Forest and the Weald down over the South Downs to the coast, and its wealth sits in the country houses and estates between — around Goodwood and Chichester, in the forest villages toward Forest Row, in the Downland farms. The county's calendar is unusually public: the racing and motoring occasions at Goodwood and the opera season fill quiet lanes with visitors and, for a few weeks, a great many recognisable faces.

So our Sussex work pairs residential surveys for the Downland and forest estates — where an open aspect and a long approach are the design and the exposure both — with discreet event and occasion cover through the summer season, and secure driving on lanes that were never built for the traffic those occasions bring. Visiting principals are met, moved and handed back without a scene.

An illustrative scenario

The kind of week the season produces: a guest of a Sussex occasion moved between house, event and airport without ever meeting the crowd the day created.

A flint-walled lane leading toward Chichester Cathedral's spire.

Photo: Chichester Cathedral by PAUL FARMER · CC BY-SA 2.0

Local context — the Sussex area

Sampled at Chichester, recorded crime is low — a prosperous rural and coastal county. The exposure worth planning for is the seasonal spike in profile and traffic, and the open country approach to a private house, rather than anything the ambient figures suggest.

Recorded crime · May 2026

6

Burglary

9

Vehicle crime

9

Robbery

0

Theft from person

110

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.

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 Sussex can move between them without a handover.

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