Find, save and share Public Notices that affect you in the area.
Search the Public Notice Portal What is the Public Notice Portal?What is the Public Notice Portal?
The Public Notice Portal carries statutory public notices published in local newspapers and is the fastest and most effective way of finding out what is happening in YOUR neighbourhood.
Search the Public Notice PortalA Herefordshire school is to get a range of new security measures including a head-high security fence all around it, to “provide a safer environment for pupils and staff”.
Queen Elizabeth Humanities College, Bromyard’s high school, has applied for planning permission (number 251719) to put up 1.8m-high, “robust metal-mesh” fencing all around the school’s perimeter, with electronically controlled access gates.
It also wants to install CCTV cameras at key spots around the school, and also new external LED lighting to enhance site security.
RELATED NEWS:
- Pencombe villagers fear Wheelwrights Arms pub could become house
- New plan for gypsy millionaire Alfie Best's Sapey Golf Club
- Pembridge Primary School receives Good Ofsted ratings
Staff and authorised visitors will enter by using an electronic keypad or card reader, while pedestrian gates “will allow safe controlled entry for staff and students”, the school’s application says.
Its proposals are “in line with modern safeguarding requirements”, and are “a sensitive and necessary enhancement to site security and safety”, it adds.
OTHER NEWS:
- Go-ahead for 23-home scheme in village near Hereford
- The ‘unauthorised’ travellers camp that keeps growing
- Landmark Herefordshire building can finally be converted
The trees and hedges around the school’s perimeter would be unaffected, with standardised “no-dig methods” employed to put up the fencing, according to an accompanying biodiversity report.
Earlier this year the school was awarded £63,000 from local housing developers to modernise its outdoor sports areas, in line with a scheme approved by planners last summer.
The school is run by Three Counties Academy Trust, based at the school, which despite its name runs three other schools all in Herefordshire, the primaries in Bromyard, Bredenbury and Stoke Prior.
