A new framework is being launched by Homes England to help boost the delivery of new homes across the country.

The new Multidisciplinary and Technical Services Frameworks aims to broaden the range of technical and design services available to speed up housebuilding and meet the Government's ambition of building 300,000 homes a year by 2025.

The new programmes are valued at £150m and will replace Homes England's current framework that expires in November 2018. The frameworks are available to other public sector bodies, for example local authorities, to help them procure specialist technical services and develop homes for their residents.

The new frameworks will have an underpinning Multidisciplinary Framework, which will act as a one stop shop to procure a range of integrated technical and design services from a single source. It will be supplemented by a range of specialist frameworks to meet specific future needs and enable Homes England to engage directly with a broader range of companies;


• Five regionally based frameworks to provide planning, masterplanning and consultation services to help us obtain planning permission on Homes England sites. This will enable Homes England's regional delivery teams to engage directly with consultants with sound regional knowledge and experience

• A project, cost management and development monitoring framework which will support Homes England's investment activities and also provide more general project and cost management advice aligned to housing development and regeneration

• Specialist site survey and asbestos frameworks to provide very specific services to enable Homes England to quickly prepare brownfield land for development

In addition, the Multidisciplinary and Technical Frameworks supplement the services provided by Homes England's £150m Property Framework and our £8bn Housing Development Framework Delivery Partner Panel 3 (DPP3).

Stephen Kinsella, Director for Land at Homes England said: "This will be the fifth generation of our multidisciplinary framework and our biggest yet, demonstrating Homes England's expanded role in bringing together land and expertise to speed up the building of new homes.

"We want to create strong working relationships with a wider range of companies who can provide valuable technical advice and design expertise to help accelerate housing development, deliver value for money and great places to live."

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