Newcastle Town Council has introduced initial marketplace engagement for a proposed £220m framework to ship greater than 700 social rented houses over 8 years.
The framework would duvet housing tendencies throughout small websites and infill plots all over town, together with schemes of 4 to ten houses and bigger tendencies comprising 11-20 houses.
The council additionally deliberate to incorporate fashionable strategies of building (MMC), together with modular and panelised housing, along enabling works, website online preparation and infrastructure.
Design toughen and architectural services and products may be delivered in the course of the framework.
The framework shall be price £264m together with VAT.
It’s anticipated to run from 1 April 2027 to one April 2035, matter to approval.
The council is looking for comments from major contractors, SME developers, MMC producers, civil engineering contractors, experts and design groups.
It stated the engagement will assist identify marketplace capability, attainable supply approaches and boundaries to participation, whilst informing the proposed construction of the framework.
corporations had been invited to sign in in the course of the OPEN procurement portal and obtain a initial marketplace engagement knowledge pack.
A drop-in match was once hung on 20 October at Newcastle Civic Centre.
The procurement was once being performed beneath the Procurement Act 2023.
The proposed framework comes after the council secured £141.4m in govt investment thru Houses England’s Social and Reasonably priced Houses Programme 2026-36.
The investment, introduced in August, is meant to toughen the supply of 966 new council houses within the town over the following decade.
Newcastle was once one among 3 native government decided on for Strategic Partnership standing beneath the programme, along Cambridge Town Council and Eastleigh Borough Council.
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