How to win: Development Partner for the Blackpool Central Housing Regeneration Area Scheme

About this contract

Blackpool Council ("Council") is seeking to procure a Development Partner, with the requisite skills and track record to work in partnership with the Council to redevelop a 5.41-hectare site close to Blackpool town centre to deliver a high quality residential-led scheme, including the following key worksteams: • demolish up to 300 densely populated properties and existing structures including the removal of associated infrastructure; • undertake site clearance and preparation work; • develop up to 230 new dwellings (use class C3) with car and cycle parking; • develop local centre uses comprising floorspace for flexible E use classes (including office, retail, leisure including food and beverage and F2 use classes (including halls, meeting places for local community); • deliver new public realm and hard and soft landscaped public open spaces; • and provide associated infrastructure and highway works. Please see the Request to Participate ("RTP") document for further information which is available via the Council's procurement portal (https://procontract.due-north.com/.). The estimated contract value of this Project on the defined Site (within the red boundary line), as set out in th

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• ✓Answer against the marking scheme, not the question text — Blackpool Borough Council scores each response, so map your evidence to the published criteria and weightings.
• ✓At £300,000,000, expect quality and social value to carry a large share of the score — price alone rarely wins works work.
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• ✓Start early: it closes 27 November 2026 and a strong bid takes iteration.

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