Planning

Skerton School and Mainway Regeneration - Preliminary Market Engagement

LANCASTER CITY COUNCIL

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03 Nov 2025 at 14:34

UK2 - Preliminary Market Engagement Notice
Summary of the contracting process

Lancaster City Council is planning a public procurement process titled “Skerton School and Mainway Regeneration - Preliminary Market Engagement” in Lancaster, United Kingdom. The process involves the construction and regeneration of housing schemes and falls within the construction, real estate, and architectural services industries. This procurement is currently in the planning stage, with a key milestone involving market engagement scheduled until 12 December 2025. The project encompasses a planning-approved scheme for 135 affordable and social homes, with a long-term regeneration plan for the Mainway Estate, offering up to 400 new dwellings. The procurement process will explore partnership and investment opportunities to address viability challenges for the project’s early years, with contracts expected to run from April 2027 to March 2029.

This tender presents significant growth opportunities for businesses in the construction, financial, real estate, and architectural sectors. Firms with expertise in urban regeneration, innovative funding solutions, and risk-sharing approaches are particularly well-suited to compete. The council is looking for partners to deliver these schemes promptly, with an emphasis on collaboration that yields both immediate and long-term benefits. Businesses offering diverse capabilities in construction project delivery, strategic investment, and housing development can leverage this opportunity to expand their portfolio and establish a presence in a substantial public sector initiative.

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Notice Information

Notice Title

Skerton School and Mainway Regeneration - Preliminary Market Engagement

Notice Description

Lancaster City Council is launching this Preliminary Market Engagement (PME) to seek responses from developers and investors on potential partnership and investment structures to help shape and lead the delivery of two mayor housing schemes. The Council seeks partnership approaches that bring forward investment, delivery expertise, and innovative funding and risk-sharing solutions and bridge viability challenges in the early years of operation. This PME is designed to explore opportunities for partnership that will enable immediate delivery and bring forward the Council's long-term regeneration respectively for: Skerton School is a planning-approved scheme for around 135 affordable and social homes. It is ready to proceed either as a stand-alone development or as the enabling first phase of the Mainway regeneration. The Council is seeking a partner to lead delivery of this scheme, providing the additionality and decant capacity needed to support a rolling programme of renewal at Mainway and to establish early delivery momentum. Mainway Estate Regeneration is a long-term regeneration and investment opportunity. The emerging masterplan envisions up to 400 new dwellings across a mixed tenure development, delivered through phased regeneration with the opportunities to incorporate our Council Housing building ambitions within wider partner-led regeneration and redevelopment of the estate. Together, Skerton and Mainway present an opportunity for partners lead delivery of a planning-ready scheme and the long-term investment in a transformational regeneration programme

Planning Information

Suppliers can engage with this pre market engagement by: 1. Going to https://procontract.due-north.com/opportunities 2.Select 'Lancaster City Council' from the Organisation list 3. Search for Project ref. DN795733 or title 'Skerton School and Mainway regeneration' 4. Select 'express interest in this opportunity.' 5 Download the Request for information pack and complete the provided question response form by the deadline date. The deadline for responses is 12:00 Friday December 2025

Notice Details

Publication & Lifecycle

Open Contracting ID
ocds-h6vhtk-05d918
Publication Source
Find A Tender Service
Latest Notice
https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/070500-2025
Current Stage
Planning
All Stages
Planning

Procurement Classification

Notice Type
UK2 - Preliminary Market Engagement Notice
Procurement Type
Standard
Procurement Category
Works
Procurement Method
Not Specified
Procurement Method Details
Not specified
Tender Suitability
Not specified
Awardee Scale
Not specified

Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)

CPV Divisions

45 - Construction work

66 - Financial and insurance services

70 - Real estate services

71 - Architectural, construction, engineering and inspection services

CPV Codes

45000000 - Construction work

66000000 - Financial and insurance services

70000000 - Real estate services

71000000 - Architectural, construction, engineering and inspection services

Notice Value(s)

Tender Value
Not specified
Lots Value
Not specified
Awards Value
Not specified
Contracts Value
Not specified

Notice Dates

Publication Date
3 Nov 20251 months ago
Submission Deadline
Not specified
Future Notice Date
12 Dec 20251 weeks to go
Award Date
Not specified
Contract Period
31 Mar 2027 - 31 Mar 2029 2-3 years
Recurrence
Not specified

Notice Status

Tender Status
Planning
Lots Status
Planning
Awards Status
Not Specified
Contracts Status
Not Specified

Buyer & Supplier

Contracting Authority (Buyer)

Main Buyer
LANCASTER CITY COUNCIL
Contact Name
Mr Andrew Whittaker
Contact Email
awhittaker@lancaster.gov.uk
Contact Phone
Not specified

Buyer Location

Locality
LANCASTER
Postcode
LA1 1PJ
Post Town
Lancaster
Country
England
Major Region (ITL 1)
TLD North West (England)
Basic Region (ITL 2)
TLD4 Lancashire
Small Region (ITL 3)
TLD44 Lancaster and Wyre
Delivery Location
Not specified
Local Authority
Lancaster
Electoral Ward
Castle
Westminster Constituency
Lancaster and Wyre

Further Information

Notice Documents

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