South Lanarkshire Council Land Led Development

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South Lanarkshire Council (the Council) have a commitment to deliver a programme to build 1300 affordable homes for social housing in South Lanarkshire by the end of the financial year of 2026/27. As a key deliverable to support the Council’s affordable homes commitment, this Prior Information Notice (PIN) is being published to provide the market an opportunity to present proposals to the Council to support the acceleration of the Council led programme and to engage with private sector partners to bring forward land which is not owned by the Council. The purpose of the PIN is to engage developers and landowners to identify: - Private sector partners who have land which the Council may be interested in purchasing, subject to suitability, capacity and financial viability. - Private sector partners who have completed homes on sites (which are complete already or will be available for purchase on completion in the near future). These may be through Section 75 agreements where Registered Social Landlord (RSLs) are not already engaged to deliver the affordable housing; Initial consideration and sifting of these proposals will be considered in relation to the high-level parameters in Appendix 1 which is available for download at the Additional Documents section of the PIN; Our key aims in our engagement with private sectors are: - To identify engagement and procurement models which are aimed at reducing complex procurement procedures through establishment of a streamlined and transparent procurement process such as a Dynamic Purchasing System which will ensure compliance with Procurement Regulations and offers the flexibility required to react to opportunities over a number of years. - To maximise opportunities for open and transparent dialogue which will support the Council in accelerating its affordable homes programme - To identify more immediate opportunities which can be delivered through land and property transactions - To raise awareness and progress potential compliant property and procurement routes for accelerating delivery of affordable homes. The Council would request that interested parties complete and return questionnaire contained as an appendix within the "Land Led Development Questionnaire" document contained within the additional documents area of this PIN. Responses should be emailed to tom.murphy@southlanarkshire.gov.uk no later than 12 noon on Tuesday 21st November 2023.