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BHCC - RS - Royal Pavilion Gardens Landscape and Amenities works

Brighton & Hove City Council

This public procurement record has 3 releases in its history.

Award

06 Oct 2026 at 13:39

UK6 - Contract Award Notice
Tender

17 Oct 2025 at 17:11

UK4 - Tender Notice
Planning

29 Sep 2025 at 15:43

UK2 - Preliminary Market Engagement Notice
Summary of the contracting process

Brighton & Hove City Council is buying capital works to conserve and improve the Royal Pavilion Garden in central Brighton, as part of Phase Two of the Royal Pavilion Estate masterplan. The Grade II listed Regency garden covers 3.3 hectares and provides the setting and access to the Royal Pavilion and Brighton Museum & Art Gallery. The work includes new visitor and community facilities, including public toilets with changing places, outdoor learning space, benches and bins; landscaping, widened paths and improved entrances; restoration of historic planting, railings and lamp columns; and new interpretation and wayfinding. The project aims to improve the garden, make it more sustainable and welcoming, connect the estate, and limit disruption to visitors. This is a construction and landscape improvement project (CPV 45000000).

The procurement is complete and awarded following an open competition using a competitive flexible procedure. Blakedown Landscapes (SE) Limited was selected as the supplier. The award was made on 6 October 2026, for £5,174,164 excluding VAT (£6,208,996.80 including VAT). The contract period runs from 2 November 2026 to 6 November 2028. The original estimated value was £3,600,000 excluding VAT (£4,320,000 including VAT). The process involved shortlisting, a full tender stage and a final price-only value-engineering exercise. Shortlisting used a procurement-specific questionnaire and quality response, with up to five contractors to be shortlisted; the subsequent tender stage assessed price and quality. The awarded contract covers one lot of capital works.

This award shows that Brighton & Hove City Council buys substantial landscape and construction packages for sensitive, heavily used heritage sites. A credible competitor for comparable work would need to demonstrate the ability to conserve and restore historic gardens and fixtures while delivering new public facilities, paths, access improvements and visitor information. Experience working around listed buildings and historic landscapes would be relevant, alongside strong landscape construction capability and an approach that protects visitor access and keeps disruption to a minimum. The scope also calls for coordination across conservation, public-realm improvements and community facilities, with attention to environmental sustainability and the quality of the finished space. Suppliers should be able to evidence both quality and competitive pricing, and to identify practical value-engineering options without undermining the conservation and visitor objectives.

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Notice Information

Notice Title

BHCC - RS - Royal Pavilion Gardens Landscape and Amenities works

Notice Description

The Royal Pavilion Estate is the city of Brighton & Hove's cultural heart and the Royal Pavilion is an internationally recognised emblem. Uniquely combining an historic Royal Palace and Regency Garden, a museum & art gallery, and three performing arts spaces, the two custodians of the Estate Brighton & Hove Museums (B&HM) and Brighton Dome & Brighton Festival (BD&BF) are coming together with BHCC in a cross-cultural partnership to reinvigorate and reconnect this historic Estate through the implementation of an estate-wide masterplan. This project relates to Phase Two of the masterplan for the Royal Pavilion Estate (Phase One was the refurbishment of the Corn Exchange). The Royal Pavilion Garden comprises 3.3ha of paths, lawns, shrubberies, garden beds and ancient trees. Importantly it comprises the setting and is the access point, for the Royal Pavilion and Brighton Museum & Art Gallery. Presently, the garden is a partially restored John Nash designed Regency Garden (listed Grade II). It has recently been placed on Historic England's Heritage at Risk Register (HARR) due to its deteriorating condition which is a result of overuse, antisocial behaviour and lack of investment. The Royal Pavilion Estate contains many historic listed buildings and features: - Royal Pavilion Garden (Grade II) - Royal Pavilion (Grade I) - Brighton Museum & Art Gallery (Grade II*) - Brighton Dome Theatre (Grade I) - Corn Exchange (Grade II) - Northgate House (Grade II*) - India Gate (Grade II) - William IV Gate (Grade II*) - 19 William IV Lamp posts (Grade II) Following successful completion of the development phase funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund, the project partners BHCC & B&HM have jointly secured PS6.2M from the National Lottery Heritage Fund with roughly 60% allocated to the capital works project to re redevelop the estate. This notice relates to the Capital works only. The approved designs focus on the conservation and improvement of the garden to enhance environmental sustainability and to attract a wider range of people and ensuring there are more opportunities for use and community involvement. The planned capital works consist of: - New visitor and community facilities including a new public toilet facility with changing places, outdoor learning space, benches and bins. - Extensive landscaping improvements including path widening and entrance improvements. - Restoration of historic planting designs. - Restoration of historic fixtures such as perimeter railings and lamp columns. - New physical interpretation and wayfinding Our key priorities are to: - Deliver high quality and visually engaging spaces in this highly public and well loved public space in the centre of Brighton - Connect the Royal Estate, creating a sense of arrival - Minimise disruption to the site whilst delivering the works, to enable the Trust relies on visitors to maintain the viability of the site. The tender process is a competitive flexible procedure consisting of at least two stages; a shortlisting stage and a full tender stage. The shortlisting stage is released with this notice with full tender release in February 2026. The planned site handover should then go-ahead late summer, early autumn 2026.

Planning Information

Interested contractors should if they do not already hold an account, create an account on the SE shared services e-procurement platform. The details of which can be found here: https://in-tendhost.co.uk/sesharedservices/aspx/Home Expressions of interest (this does not impact ability to join the tender at a later date) or any queries should be returned to the Council's procurement officer by email on Robert.sullivan@brighton-hove.gov.uk

Notice Details

Publication & Lifecycle

Open Contracting ID
ocds-h6vhtk-05a442
Publication Source
Find A Tender Service
Latest Notice
https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/094274-2026
Current Stage
Award
All Stages
Planning, Tender, Award

Procurement Classification

Notice Type
UK6 - Contract Award Notice
Procurement Type
Standard
Procurement Category
Works
Procurement Method
Open
Procurement Method Details
Below threshold - open competition
Tender Suitability
Not specified
Awardee Scale
SME

Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)

CPV Divisions

45 - Construction work

CPV Codes

45000000 - Construction work

Notice Value(s)

Tender Value
£3,600,000 £1M-£10M
Lots Value
£3,600,000 £1M-£10M
Awards Value
£5,174,164 £1M-£10M
Contracts Value
Not specified

Notice Dates

Publication Date
6 Oct 20262 weeks ago
Submission Deadline
13 Nov 2025Expired
Future Notice Date
20 Oct 2025Expired
Award Date
6 Oct 20263 weeks ago
Contract Period
2 Nov 2026 - 6 Nov 2028 2-3 years
Recurrence
Not specified

Notice Status

Tender Status
Complete
Lots Status
Complete
Awards Status
Active
Contracts Status
Not Specified

Buyer & Supplier

Contracting Authority (Buyer)

Main Buyer
Brighton & Hove City Council
Contact Name
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Contact Email
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Contact Phone
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Buyer Location

Locality
HOVE
Postcode
BN3 3BQ
Postcode Area
Brighton
Country
England
Major Region (ITL 1)
TLJ South East (England)
Basic Region (ITL 2)
TLJ2 Surrey, East and West Sussex
Small Region (ITL 3)
TLJ21 Brighton and Hove
Delivery Location
TLJ South East (England)
Local Authority
Brighton and Hove
Electoral Ward
Central Hove
Westminster Constituency
Hove and Portslade

Supplier Information

Number of Suppliers
1
Supplier Name

Blakedown Landscapes SE Ltd

Further Information

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