{"id":51667,"date":"2019-01-29T09:03:05","date_gmt":"2019-01-29T09:03:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/?p=51667"},"modified":"2019-01-29T09:03:05","modified_gmt":"2019-01-29T09:03:05","slug":"barking-dagenham-regeneration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/barking-dagenham-regeneration\/51667\/","title":{"rendered":"Trio revealed for Barking &#038; Dagenham regeneration"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-51670 size-full aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Trio-revealed-for-Barking-Dagenham-regeneration.jpg\" alt=\"Development Framework, Be First,\" width=\"555\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Trio-revealed-for-Barking-Dagenham-regeneration.jpg 555w, https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Trio-revealed-for-Barking-Dagenham-regeneration-300x243.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Trio-revealed-for-Barking-Dagenham-regeneration-518x420.jpg 518w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 555px) 100vw, 555px\" \/><\/h2>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/befirst.london\/\">Be First<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lbbd.gov.uk\/\">Barking and Dagenham Council\u2019s<\/a> regeneration company, has revealed the three companies that will join the second Lot of its new Development Framework for major projects of \u00a310m and over<\/h2>\n<p>The successful contractors of its new Development Framework include; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mclarengroup.com\/\">McLaren Construction<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.willmottdixon.co.uk\/\">Willmott Dixon<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wates.co.uk\/what-we-do\/residential-developments\/wates-residential\/\">Wates Residential<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Iain Ferguson, Commercial Director at Be First, said: \u201cWe are happy to announce the winners of Lot 2 of our Development Framework.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have now completed the set. These three winners and the four companies selected in Lot 1 are now part of our drive to deliver thousands of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/affordable-housing-supply-figures\/49385\/\">affordable homes<\/a> for local people.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was an exhaustive selection process and the competition was fierce, but now we are able to pick up the pace of delivery to restore Barking and Dagenham to its historic position as the place for working Londoners to find a high quality affordable home.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As part of the Lot 2 tender process, McLaren Construction has been awarded the contract to build one of Be First\u2019s flagship projects, Crown House.<\/p>\n<p>Kevin Taylor, Chairman at McLaren, said: \u201cWe look forward to working with Be First and the people of Barking and Dagenham to help bring to life the ambitions for the borough.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Together the Lot 1 and 2 projects are worth almost \u00a31bn and cover Be First\u2019s Development Framework and related infrastructure schemes.<\/p>\n<p>The framework is also available for access by other Contracting Authorities.<\/p>\n<p>Ferguson added: \u201cCouncils using our framework agreements will be able to access top quality construction companies who have demonstrated capability through our intensive selection process.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"mk-custom-module-container\">\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Be First, Barking and Dagenham Council\u2019s regeneration company, has revealed the three companies that will join the second Lot of its new Development Framework for major projects of \u00a310m and over.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[304],"tags":[676,639,669,1755,1009],"stakeholder_rel_tag":[],"contributor_rel_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-51667","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-planning-construction-news","7":"tag-construction","8":"tag-procurement","9":"tag-regeneration","10":"tag-wates","11":"tag-willmott-dixon"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.9 (Yoast SEO v26.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Trio revealed for Barking &amp; 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