Commission Speller Metcalfe to carry out the design and install contract as tendered.
These measures will ensure the safety of City users with an onus on those gathered for events.
Herefordshire Council aim to reduce the risk of vehicle-borne attacks, whether from errant vehicles or those acts motivated by terrorism aims. Given that these events have happened in various large cities across Europe, then there is clearly a potential for such events to happen.
To investigate, HC undertook a TVRA (Threat, Vulnerability and Risk Assessment) for part of the Historic Core in February 2021. This identified High Town/St Peter’s Street/Commercial Street as the highest attractiveness as a target which would be logical in terms of being the areas of highest pedestrian concentrations.
HC will install a number of fixed, removable and lowering/rising bollards at key city gateways along with an Operating Protocol to be followed for day-to-day operations and events.
The contract will include the procurement of HVM bollards, installation and associated drainage works and awarded via the NBS SBS PS-Works: Public Sector Constriction Works framework in accordance with CPR’s.