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title: "Dewsbury Riverside - Appointment of Master Developer"
ocid: "ocds-h6vhtk-052785"
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current_stage: "Planning"
buyer: "THE COUNCIL OF THE BOROUGH OF KIRKLEES"
published: "2025-07-11"
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# Dewsbury Riverside - Appointment of Master Developer

Buyer: THE COUNCIL OF THE BOROUGH OF KIRKLEES  
Current stage: Planning  
OCID: ocds-h6vhtk-052785

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## Summary

The Council of the Borough of Kirklees is planning a procurement process to appoint a master developer for the Dewsbury Riverside development project, scheduled within the West Yorkshire Strategic Place Partnership. This planned procurement, with a focus on construction work, falls under the competitive flexible procedure method. The project aims to deliver approximately 1,988 homes on a site with multiple ownerships, including major stakeholders like Kirklees Council and Savile Estate. The procurement process is currently at the planning stage, with a significant date being the communication of its public notice on 1st September 2025. The contract is anticipated to begin on 1st April 2026 and conclude on 31st March 2030, all located within the UKE44 region of the United Kingdom.

This tender offers robust business opportunities for companies in the construction industry, especially those with expertise in building large residential communities and experience in comprehensive site development, from planning and infrastructure delivery to marketing and community engagement. The project requires a master developer capable of handling complex land assembly, planning phases, and delivering substantial social value. Businesses with a track record in handling strategic partnership developments and collaboration agreements will find this opportunity particularly well-suited for sustaining and accelerating their growth in public sector projects.

## Notice

Kirklees Council is seeking interest from suitably qualified and experienced parties for the role of a Master Developer to drive forward the delivery of the Dewsbury Riverside housing allocated site. The site is in multiple ownerships. The two most significant land owners, Kirklees Council and Savile Estate are now progressing the delivery process together under a Collaboration Agreement. It is indicated that these two land ownerships can deliver approximately 2,000 homes. A master developer will be required to deliver a number of phases throughout the contract currently anticipated to include: Masterplan and phasing strategy, land assembly, planning, infrastructure delivery / site servicing, marketing of serviced land, funding strategy, setting up stewardship arrangements, supporting the delivery of appropriate social value and community engagement. The Council has been working closely with Homes England to define a delivery strategy for the site and procurement programme, with the successful master developer proposed to be appointed in Spring 2026. A funding application to Homes England is being progressed in parallel with the developer procurement process. It is envisaged that a substantial proportion of the infrastructure package costs will be capable of being funded through Homes England grant. Technical work produced on behalf of the Council and Homes England has identified the site preparation, infrastructure and development costs throughout the life of the delivery programme amounting to a maximum of PS150 million. The Council have been undertaking works to understand the required infrastructure works and costings to feed into a funding bid, which has identified a viability gap and resulting public sector funding requirement of in the range of PS60 - PS70 million. It is anticipated that the funding bid will be made by the master developer and the grant funding agreement will be between Homes England and the appointed the master developer Further details on the opportunity can be accessed via YORtender - https://uk.eu-supply.com/app/rfq/rwlentrance_s.asp?PID=95913&PP=ctm/Supplier/publictenders&B=YORTENDER&PS=1. If the link does not work, then please search for the Prelimary Market Engagement using the details below; Quote/Tender ID - 101259 Reference - KMCHG-026 - Dewsbury Riverside - Appointment of Master Developer This includes a description of scope of works required, information on the proposed route to market, conditions of contract & programme timescales

### Planning Information

Further details on the opportunity can be accessed via YORtender - https://uk.eu-supply.com/app/rfq/rwlentrance_s.asp?PID=95913&PP=ctm/Supplier/publictenders&B=YORTENDER&PS=1. 
If the link does not work, then please search for the Prelimary Market Engagement using the details below;
Quote/Tender ID - 101259
Reference - KMCHG-026 - Dewsbury Riverside - Appointment of Master Developer
The deadline for submitting expressions of interest is 1st August 2025.
Interested parties are encouraged to provide feedback via the 'Response Form' and suppliers have the ability to raise any clarification questions via the 'Messaging' function.

## Key Details

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication source | Find A Tender Service |
| Latest notice | https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/039263-2025 |
| Notice type | UK2 - Preliminary Market Engagement Notice |
| Procurement type | Standard |
| Procurement category | Works |
| Procurement method | Not Specified |
| Procurement method details | Competitive flexible procedure |
| Tender suitability | Not specified |
| Awardee scale | Not specified |
| All stages | Planning |

## Dates

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication date | 11 Jul 2025 |
| Submission deadline | Not specified |
| Future notice date | 1 Sep 2025 |
| Award date | Not specified |
| Contract period | 29 Jun 2026 - 30 Jun 2036 |
| Recurrence | Not specified |

## Values

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender value | £150,000,000 |
| Lots value | Not specified |
| Awards value | Not specified |
| Contracts value | Not specified |

## Status

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender status | Planned |
| Lots status | Planned |
| Awards status | Not specified |
| Contracts status | Not specified |

## Buyer

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Main buyer | THE COUNCIL OF THE BOROUGH OF KIRKLEES |
| Locality | HUDDERSFIELD |
| Post town | Huddersfield |
| Postcode | HD1 2TA |
| Country | England |
| ITL 1 | TLE Yorkshire and The Humber |
| ITL 2 | TLE4 West Yorkshire |
| ITL 3 | TLE44 Calderdale and Kirklees |
| Local authority | Kirklees |
| Electoral ward | Newsome |
| Westminster constituency | Huddersfield |
| Delivery location | TLE4 West Yorkshire, TLE44 Calderdale and Kirklees |

## CPV Codes

### Divisions

- 45 - Construction work
- 70 - Real estate services

### Codes

- 45100000 - Site preparation work
- 45211100 - Construction work for houses
- 45211300 - Houses construction work
- 45500000 - Hire of construction and civil engineering machinery and equipment with operator
- 70110000 - Development services of real estate
- 70122000 - Land sale or purchase services

## Release History

- 11 Jul 2025 at 12:06 - Planning - UK2 - Preliminary Market Engagement Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/039263-2025
- 28 May 2025 at 09:03 - Planning - UK1 - Pipeline Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/027949-2025

## Documents

- https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/039263-2025
  11th July 2025 - Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender
- https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/027949-2025
  28th May 2025 - Pipeline notice on Find a Tender

## Notice URLs

- https://uk.eu-supply.com/app/rfq/rwlentrance_s.asp?PID=95913&PP=ctm/Supplier/publictenders&B=YORTENDER&PS=1
- https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2023/54/contents

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