Decision details
Award of professional services contract to undertake design and consultation of Urban Design Masterplanning and Architecture pursuant to the ESPO Framework Agreement (reference 664_21 Consultancy Services).
Decision Maker: Corporate Director – Economy & Environment
Decision status: Recommendations Approved
Is Key decision?: No
Is subject to call in?: No
Purpose:
A Hereford City Masterplan framework will help
Hereford to become a more active travel city in the short, medium
and long term. To complete a workable and suitable framework then a
specialist team would need to be brought on board to undertake a
strategic level review of the City and surrounding area utilising
GIS information along with reviewing baseline information to
undertake a desktop survey to build an understanding of the
City’s planning, historic and environmental issues and
opportunities, which will be used to provide people with a visual
design of the future of the city centre.
A need to develop urban design principles and concept masterplan
proposals along with options for development sites is key in
delivering a Masterplan that will help the City to become a more
active and green city in the short, medium and long term. As well
as this, it is necessary to bring in Architects with town planning
specialities to redesign areas within the city. It will be these
specialist consultants who will produce planning requirements where
necessary for development sites with some being taken to concept
design RIBA stage 2, which is key for understanding what the future
of Hereford could look like with the more active travel measures in
place, including but not limited to public realm opportunities, new
transport infrastructure elements and access and setting of
historic assets.
Contact: Ross Cook, Corporate Director - Economy and Environment Email: ross.cook@herefordshire.gov.uk.
Publication date: 15/09/2022
Date of decision: 28/06/2022
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