New framework covers housebuilding, repair and maintenance activity
Kensington and Chelsea council has launched a search for contractors to deliver 600 new homes across the borough, including 300 for social rent.
The borough’s new framework, outlined in an OJEU notice published last week, covers the housebuilding activity, as well as the repair and maintenance of existing housing stock, plus mechanical and engineering work on council-owned homes.
The framework is expected to go live in the spring of next year and the work is expected to take up to four years.
A spokesman for the council said the 600 new homes will be built on sites owned by the council – either derelict land or empty properties that need rebuilding – and consultations with local residents have already taken place over schemes on four sites.
The properties would be new builds and would not result from the redevelopment of existing estates, he added.
The council said its draft housing strategy signalled its intention to use planning policy to require developers to deliver more social housing in the borough.
The strategy “commits to investing £300m to refurbish existing council homes and to continuing to work closely with tenants and leaseholders to drive improvements in key areas, such as fire safety”, it said.
The council said it was also seeking to address homelessness by “working with housing associations to secure more homes for local people and to improve standards, and to support older, disabled and vulnerable residents to stay in their homes”.
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