£100m Erith Western Gateway to be packaged up

Bexley Council is unlikely to re-tender 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 CJ the work is likely to be divided up into a number of smaller packages.

"Procuring a single development partner has not worked, so we need to see if it would be right to try to re-tender or whether it would be better to split the project into smaller phases. We are thinking creatively about it," the source said.

The job, which is 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.