Westminster city council has launched a bidding process to determine who will pull down the Ebury Bridge housing estate.

The estate, much of which was built in the 1930s, is due to be replaced by 750 new homes that will be built by the council in partnership with other developers in a scheme worth £350m.

In a contract notice published in the Official Journal of the EU the local authority said it was inviting firms to bid for the work, initially worth around £3m, which would involve the demolition and clearance of the housing estate and preparation of the site for constructing the new homes.