Old homes will make way for 750 new units, with nearly half being affordable
Westminster city council has launched a bidding process to determine who will pull down the Ebury Bridge housing estate.
The estate (pictured), much of which was put up in the 1930s, is due to be replaced by 750 new homes that will be built by the council in partnership with other developers in a scheme worth £350m.
In a contract notice published in the Official Journal of the EU the local authority said it was inviting firms to bid for the work, initially worth around £3m, which would involve the demolition and clearance of the housing estate and preparation of the site for constructing the new homes.
After the site is cleared 200 new mixed tenure homes will be provided. Eventually Westminster council plans to build 750 new homes, with at least 342 being affordable.
The new-look estate would feature nearly 200 social rented homes. Of the 144 affordable family-sized homes on the site, 87 would be for social rent and 57 for intermediate rent.
The demolition works will be conducted in three phases, the contract notice said, with the initial appointment being for the first phase only.
Firms looking to tender for the work have until 5 July to register their interest.
Westminster council has called the regeneration of the Ebury Bridge estate “the most strategically important” of the schemes it is planning to undertake as it seeks to build 850 affordable homes by 2023.
It said it had also identified sites for a further 2,000 new homes.
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