Published date: 19 April 2021

Last edited date: 6 May 2021

This notice was replaced on 21 May 2021

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Awarded contract (published 21 May 2021)

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Contract summary

Industry

  • Urban planning services - 71410000

Location of contract

East of England

Value of contract

£0

Procurement reference

Uttlesford Local Plan - Heritage Sensitivity Assessment

Published date

19 April 2021

Closing date

7 May 2021

Closing time

12pm

Contract start date

17 May 2021

Contract end date

29 March 2024

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Open procedure (below threshold)

Any interested supplier may submit a tender in response to an opportunity notice.

This procedure can be used for procurements below the relevant contract value threshold.

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

Yes

Description

Heritage Sensitivity Assessment
The Council is seeking to appoint consultants to undertake a Heritage Sensitivity Assessment to support the preparation of the Uttlesford Local Plan.

Following withdrawal of the 2018 Submission Local Plan from the examination process in early 2020, the Council is at the early stages of preparing a new Local Plan.

The Council commenced work on the Issues and Options stage in October 2020 and community engagement on this stage is ongoing until mid-April 2021. The Council is aiming to consult on the draft Plan (Preferred Options) in March 2022 and Pre-Submission in March 2023 and submit the plan for examination in August 2023.

The Strategy of the withdrawn local plan centred on the allocation of three garden communities. One of the recommendations from the Inspectors was that the Council would need to allocate more small and medium sized sites to bolster supply and provide flexibility and choice. The Inspectors also identified landscape and heritage constraints in relation to the garden communities that had not been satisfactorily addressed, in particular at North Uttlesford GC.

The council is therefore commissioning a series of evidence base documents to help it development vision, strategy, policies and allocations. There is a strong likelihood that this will include allocations in the towns and villages. The council is committed to delivering developments of the highest quality and in the most sustainable locations. Therefore, the Council is seeking evidence of the sensitivity of the heritage to development around settlements

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About the buyer

Contact name

Stephen Miles

Address

Uttlesford District Council
London Road
Saffron Walden
CB11 4ER
England

Email

smiles@uttlesford.gov.uk