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A variety of house builders, contractors and development consortia have been appointed to the Homes and Communities Agency's (HCA) new Delivery Partner Panel, it was announced today.
Aimed at streamlining development on publicly-owned land, the panel is divided into three clusters – northern, central and southern – to provide full national coverage. In addition to working on the HCA’s own projects, panel members will be made available to Local Authorities, Regional Development Agencies (RDAs) and other public agencies to deliver new homes through programmes such as Local Authority New Build and Public Land Initiative.
Eamonn Boylan, director of New Ventures and Partnerships at the Homes and Communities Agency said: “We hope that this panel will help speed up the procurement process for public sector agencies by providing access to a pre-qualified list of organisations that can assist with all stages of the development process. From finance and funding of development, design and construction to sales and marketing, the panel can now be used to procure both physical development works and related services in the early stages of a development project.”
To procure through the panel, public agencies will be required to sign up to a letter of agreement with the HCA and set up a separate framework contract between themselves and panel members. The panel is operational with immediate effect until 3 January 2013.
The Homes and Communities Agency (HCA) is the single, national housing and regeneration delivery agency for England. HCA's role is to bring land back into productive use and improve quality of life by raising standards for the physical and social environment. The agency also aims to create opportunities for people to live in high quality, sustainable places by providing funding for affordable housing,
Eamonn Boylan added: “This panel supports our aim of encouraging new entrants into the housing market. Several construction firms have been successful, many bringing with them experience of the planning system and of partnerships with the public sector through Building Schools for the Future and the health sector's LIFT programme, for example. House builders and mixed-use developers also competed intensely to join the panel, recognising the opportunity to widen their business in a difficult market by working on a more contractual basis for public land owners in future."
The panel members are:
Northern Cluster
Ardmore First Base Partnership
Barratt Developments Plc
Carillion Igloo Consortium
Cecil M Yuill Ltd
Countryside Properties (UK) Ltd
Galliford Try Plc
Gentoo Group Ltd
Great Places Housing Group
Headcrown Group Plc
Keepmoat Ltd
Laing O'Rourke Construction Limited
Lend Lease Europe Holdings Ltd
Lovell Partnerships
Miller Homes Ltd
Seddon Group Limited
Taylor Wimpey UK Ltd
Wates Construction Ltd
Central Cluster
Barratt Developments Plc
Bouygues UK Ltd
Carillion Igloo Consortium
Crest Nicholson Operations Limited
Family Mosaic Home Ownership Limited
Galliford Try Plc
Hadley Mace Limited (Consortium)
J B Leadbitter & Co Ltd
Keepmoat Ltd
Kier Group plc
Laing O'Rourke Construction Limited
Lend Lease Europe Holdings Ltd
Persimmon Homes Ltd
Rok Building Ltd
Skanska Construction UK Ltd
Taylor Wimpey UK Ltd
Wates Construction Ltd
William Davis Limited
Southern Cluster
Ardmore First Base Partnership
Barratt Developments Plc
Bouygues UK Ltd
Carillion Igloo Consortium
Countryside Properties (UK) Ltd
Crest Nicholson Operations Limited
Family Mosaic Home Ownership Limited
Galliford Try Plc
Hadley Mace Limited (consortium)
J B Leadbitter & Co Ltd
Kier Group plc
Laing O'Rourke Construction Limited
Lovell Partnerships Ltd
Mi-Space (UK) Ltd
Skanska Construction UK Ltd
Taylor Wimpey UK Ltd
Wates Construction Ltd
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