Notice Information
Notice Title
Appointment of developer for Leigham Court Road
Notice Description
London Borough of Lambeth (LBL) is entering into a development agreement with a special purpose vehicle wholly owned by Pocket Living Limited (Developer) in respect of the Leigham Court Road development. The Developer will carry out construction of a residential housing scheme (to include affordable homes for LBL to acquire) to be determined through the planning and development process. LBL is using the negotiated procedure without prior publication due to the Developer's exclusive rights of land ownership on the site to be developed. There is no reasonable alternative site or developer which exists in respect of the land to be developed. For further information, please see the "Description of the Procurement" section of this notice.
Lot Information
Lot 1
LBL intends to develop the Leigham Court Road site to deliver circa 90 residential units of which 14 (with provision for 15) are to be affordable homes acquired by LBL on terms agreed. The full scope of the project is estimated to have a value of PS60,000,000. LBL has identified the Leigham Court Road site as appropriate for a comprehensive development across three parcels of land. The Developer owns approximately one third of the site being developed, has a land option over a further third (approximately) and LBL owns the final approximate one third of the site. The affordable homes to be acquired by LBL are to be constructed in a single block on a part of the site owned by the Developer or as will be acquired under the option they hold. Due to the Developer's land ownerships, LBL is relying on Regulation 32(2)(b)(iii) of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (PCR 2015) to contract directly with the Developer. LBL has: 1. analysed whether the Developer is the only landowner that owns rights to land on the Site on which the proposed development is to take place; and 2. analysed whether there are other viable options than the Leigham Court Road site on which the proposed development could take place. This analysis has confirmed that there are no reasonable alternative sites or developers and LBL's contracting with the Developer is not the result of an artificial narrowing down of the parameters of the procurement. Therefore, the circumstances at Regulation 32(2)(b)(iii) PCR 2015 are met and LBL may contract with the Developer without publishing a contract notice and conducting a competitive procurement. LBL is publishing this notice for full transparency in light of the fact that it is contracting with the Developer pursuant to this exemption from the full rigours of the PCR 2015. LBL intends to enter into a development agreement with the Developer in respect of the site. This development agreement will cover the full scale of development of the site.
Procurement Information
Pocket Living are the only developer capable of meeting the Council's requirements for a scheme on all three sites. If the Council advertised for bidders to come forward on a scheme on the three sites combined, bidders would require the Council to use its Compulsory Purchase Order (CPO) powers in respect of the site owned by Pocket Living and the Synagogue Site (which Pocket Living will have the benefit of an Option Agreement to acquire, prior to the execution of this award). A CPO would likely fail if Pocket Living argued they are able and willing to carry out the development for which CPO powers are being sought.
Notice Details
Publication & Lifecycle
- Open Contracting ID
- ocds-h6vhtk-05536f
- Publication Source
- Find A Tender Service
- Latest Notice
- https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/035083-2025
- Current Stage
- Award
- All Stages
- Award
Procurement Classification
- Notice Type
- Award Notice
- Procurement Type
- Standard
- Procurement Category
- Works
- Procurement Method
- Limited
- Procurement Method Details
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Tender Suitability
- Not specified
- Awardee Scale
- Large
Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)
- CPV Divisions
45 - Construction work
70 - Real estate services
71 - Architectural, construction, engineering and inspection services
-
- CPV Codes
45000000 - Construction work
45111000 - Demolition, site preparation and clearance work
45111291 - Site-development work
45210000 - Building construction work
45211340 - Multi-dwelling buildings construction work
45211350 - Multi-functional buildings construction work
45211360 - Urban development construction work
45220000 - Engineering works and construction works
45233260 - Pedestrian ways construction work
45330000 - Plumbing and sanitary works
70000000 - Real estate services
70110000 - Development services of real estate
70112000 - Development of non-residential real estate
70123100 - Sale of residential real estate
71247000 - Supervision of building work
71315200 - Building consultancy services
71530000 - Construction consultancy services
71540000 - Construction management services
71541000 - Construction project management services
Notice Value(s)
- Tender Value
- Not specified
- Lots Value
- Not specified
- Awards Value
- Not specified
- Contracts Value
- £60,000,000 £10M-£100M
Notice Dates
- Publication Date
- 25 Jun 20258 months ago
- Submission Deadline
- Not specified
- Future Notice Date
- Not specified
- Award Date
- 23 Jun 20258 months ago
- Contract Period
- Not specified - Not specified
- Recurrence
- Not specified
Notice Status
- Tender Status
- Complete
- Lots Status
- Cancelled
- Awards Status
- Active
- Contracts Status
- Active
Buyer & Supplier
Contracting Authority (Buyer)
- Main Buyer
- THE MAYOR AND BURGESSES OF THE LONDON BOROUGH OF LAMBETH
- Contact Name
- Valentine Onwuchekwa
- Contact Email
- vonwuchekwa@lambeth.gov.uk
- Contact Phone
- +44 7727299854
Buyer Location
- Locality
- LONDON
- Postcode
- SW2 1RW
- Post Town
- South West London
- Country
- England
-
- Major Region (ITL 1)
- TLI London
- Basic Region (ITL 2)
- TLI4 Inner London - East
- Small Region (ITL 3)
- TLI45 Lambeth
- Delivery Location
- TLI45 Lambeth
-
- Local Authority
- Lambeth
- Electoral Ward
- Brixton Acre Lane
- Westminster Constituency
- Clapham and Brixton Hill
Further Information
Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS)
View full OCDS Record for this contracting process
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