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Hounslow opens market engagement on 300 million pound Convent Way regeneration
By Staff Writer | 08-09-2026
The London Borough of Hounslow has issued a planned procurement notice for the regeneration of the Convent Way Estate, with an estimated total value of 300,000,000 pounds excluding VAT and 360,000,000 pounds including VAT. The council is running a soft market engagement exercise ahead of a formal procurement for a development and investment partner, with expressions of interest due by 25 September 2026.
What the council is proposing
The notice, reference DN828611, was published on 7 September 2026. It records that the council is progressing a redesigned masterplan for approximately 550 to 568 homes. That includes the full reprovision of 250 existing social rent homes, additional social rent units, shared equity homes and, in later phases, market housing. The scheme is to be delivered across up to five phases, supported by a revised hybrid planning application and a phased compulsory purchase order strategy.
The council states that the regeneration follows a positive resident ballot and a subsequent redesign of the masterplan. The estimated contract dates are 3 July 2028 to 3 March 2042, a period the notice states as 13 years, 8 months and 1 day. The main procurement category is works, with CPV classifications for construction work, real estate services, architectural and related services, engineering services and construction-related services. The contract location is Hounslow and Richmond upon Thames.
The partner model
The council intends to procure a development and investment partner through a competitive flexible procedure. Early phases will be delivered on behalf of the council, with later phases delivered by the partner as retained developer. That is the structure described on the notice; the commercial terms are not yet set, and testing them is one of the stated purposes of the engagement.
Alongside the main regeneration procurement, the council is considering tendering interim capital works, described as roof and concrete repairs with an estimated value of up to 5,000,000 pounds. Bidders may express interest in the regeneration only, or in the regeneration together with the capital works. The council says it wants to test the market's appetite for a combined procurement.
What the engagement is for
The notice lists four aims for the soft market engagement: to present the updated scheme and planning strategy; to seek market feedback on deliverability, phasing, commercial structure and risk allocation; to test appetite for combined procurement of regeneration and capital works; and to inform the final procurement approach.
Interested organisations are invited to complete an expression of interest questionnaire on the council's e-tendering portal, and may then be selected for one-to-one engagement sessions. The engagement deadline is 25 September 2026. The notice is explicit that participation in the engagement does not form part of any future evaluation, and that it is issued solely to notify the market of the upcoming exercise.
Reading the value. The 300,000,000 pounds figure is an estimated total value on a planned procurement notice. No contract has been let, no partner has been selected and no tender has yet been issued. The figure covers a scheme of up to five phases over a period estimated to run to 2042, and it should be read as the council's own estimate of the whole, not as a contract sum. The separate 5,000,000 pounds for interim roof and concrete repairs is likewise an estimate, and the council has only said it is considering tendering that work.
What is not on the record. The notice does not give a date for the formal procurement, does not describe the phasing in detail beyond the number of phases, and does not name a planning reference or a ballot date. The council's contact for the notice is at Hounslow House, 7 Bath Road. This article rests on the notice alone; no announcement beyond it has been seen by this desk.