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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.

The chalk run of the Seven Sisters cliffs on the East Sussex coast.

Photo: Seven Sisters March 2017 01 by Arild Vågen · CC BY-SA 4.0

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 · August 2026

7

Burglary

12

Vehicle crime

6

Robbery

1

Theft from person

133

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.

Local policing: the Chichester City neighbourhood team, Sussex Police. The team for a particular address is on police.uk, found by postcode, and 101 reaches the local force for anything that is not an emergency.

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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