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155 anti-terrorism bollards in Brixton approved

Lambeth Council has approved plans to to install 155 permanent anti-terrorism bollards around Windrush Square in Brixton, in an attempt to protect the area from terrorist attacks.   

The council’s extraordinary corporate committee approved the plans for the ‘heritage style, cannon-shaped bollards’, which will replace temporary ones that have been in place since the summer.

There had been concerns that the bollards would fail to ‘preserve the openness of the land’, a requirement under the Rush Common legislation. However, given their size and spacing, the bollards were deemed to not go against the openers requirement.

Lambeth Council says the bollards around Windrush Square are an anti-terrorism measure ‘to protect crowds that gather in the square which is popular for meetings, rallies and socialising’.   

The formal planning application will be considered at a date yet to be set.

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