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GCC024 - Architect / Planning – Wessex House

Gloucester City Council

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Buyer
LIVEWEST HOMES LIMITED
Location
Exeter
Deadline
Closes 4 Dec 2026
Value
£14m

Key dates and value

Status
Closed
Submission deadline
14 Sept 2026
Published
17 Aug 2026
Estimated value
£188k
Contract start
22 Oct 2026
Contract end
22 Feb 2027
Location
South West England
Notice type
UK4

Overview

We wish to appoint a lead architect who will subcontract for a series of other professional services to draught and submit a full planning application for the Wessex House site. Pre-application advice has been sought previously and the pre-application documents and feedback from planning officers will be made available to the successful consultant team. Wessex House was formally the site of buildings connected to the Gloucester Poor Law Union Workhouse. Prior to the construction of the workhouse in the 1830s, the site was open fields, and then garden plots. Additional facilities, namely an Infirmary and Casual wards, were built later. The buildings were requisitioned during the Second World War, but were then demolished between 1949 and 1950. The land was leased to the General Electric Company, who constructed Magnet House, later to become Wessex House on the site. Wessex House was itself demolished between 2018 and 2020. The site extends to 0.60 of an acre and is bounded by Network Rail land forming part of

CPV codes

  • 70000000 Real estate services

About the buyer

Gloucester City Council has published 9 tender notices since 31 Oct 2023, with a combined advertised value of £563k. 1 of them are currently open.

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