Purpose

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.