Would you recommend security lighting?

Ant555

As already suggested, simply make your home less 'burglarable' (?) than your neighbours.

A couple of years ago a friend of mine had a break-in- patio door smashed at 3pm on a weekday so plenty of people around but nobody heard anything, alarm did go off, police said thieves were estimated to be in his house for around 60-120 seconds max including going upstairs, items stolen were Xbox, ipads, laptops etc. that could not be seen through windows so it was purely speculative.

My point is that he said his house was the only one in the row that did not have a padlock on his side gate -you might think the other houses furthest away and more secluded would be the first choice - he is convinced its because the thieves could walk round to the back of his house easily.

Outside lights would not have made a difference at 3pm but visible CCTV (even dummy cameras) might have moved the thieves onto somewhere else.

Hope this helps.