--- title: "Skerton School and Mainway Regeneration - Preliminary Market Engagement" ocid: "ocds-h6vhtk-05d918" canonical_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/?ocid=ocds-h6vhtk-05d918" markdown_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-h6vhtk-05d918.md" json_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-h6vhtk-05d918.json" source: "Find A Tender Service" current_stage: "Planning" buyer: "LANCASTER CITY COUNCIL" published: "2025-11-03" --- # Skerton School and Mainway Regeneration - Preliminary Market Engagement Buyer: LANCASTER CITY COUNCIL Current stage: Planning OCID: ocds-h6vhtk-05d918 [View canonical contract page](https://d3tenders.com/contract/?ocid=ocds-h6vhtk-05d918) [Download OCDS JSON](https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-h6vhtk-05d918.json) ## Summary 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. ## Notice 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 ## Key Details | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Publication source | Find A Tender Service | | Latest notice | https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/070500-2025 | | 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 | | All stages | Planning | ## Dates | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Publication date | 3 Nov 2025 | | Submission deadline | Not specified | | Future notice date | 12 Dec 2025 | | Award date | Not specified | | Contract period | 31 Mar 2027 - 31 Mar 2029 | | Recurrence | Not specified | ## Values | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Tender value | Not specified | | Lots value | Not specified | | Awards value | Not specified | | Contracts value | Not specified | ## Status | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Tender status | Planning | | Lots status | Planning | | Awards status | Not specified | | Contracts status | Not specified | ## Buyer | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Main buyer | LANCASTER CITY COUNCIL | | Locality | LANCASTER | | Post town | Lancaster | | Postcode | LA1 1PJ | | Country | England | | ITL 1 | TLD North West (England) | | ITL 2 | TLD4 Lancashire | | ITL 3 | TLD44 Lancaster and Wyre | | Local authority | Lancaster | | Electoral ward | Castle | | Westminster constituency | Lancaster and Wyre | | Delivery location | Not specified | ## CPV Codes ### Divisions - 45 - Construction work - 66 - Financial and insurance services - 70 - Real estate services - 71 - Architectural, construction, engineering and inspection services ### Codes - 45000000 - Construction work - 66000000 - Financial and insurance services - 70000000 - Real estate services - 71000000 - Architectural, construction, engineering and inspection services ## Release History - 3 Nov 2025 at 14:34 - Planning - UK2 - Preliminary Market Engagement Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/070500-2025 ## Documents - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/070500-2025 3rd November 2025 - Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender ## Notice URLs - https://procontract.due-north.com/opportunities - https://www.lancaster.gov.uk - https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2023/54/contents ## Provenance This Markdown file is an alternate public rendering of the D3 Tenders contract record. 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