£100m Erith housing job to be split into smaller packages

Bexley Council is unlikely to retender for a development partner for the £100m Erith Western Gateway scheme in south-east London, which stalled in February after the appointed partner Crest Nicholson pulled out of the job.

The council is now reconsidering its options, and a source told ContractJournal.com the work is likely to be divided up into a number of smaller packages, adding: "Procuring a single development partner hasn’t worked, so we need to see if it would be right to try and re-tender or whether it would be better to put the project into smaller phases.

"We are thinking creatively about it."

The job, worth at least £100m, had attracted bids from Barratt Homes, Generator, Gleeson Homes and a Bouygues/Moat Homes joint venture.

Proposals include at least 500 new homes, a hotel, offices, shops, leisure uses and open space.

Bexley Council expects to announce how it will take the project forward towards the end of the year.