South West London and St George's NHS Mental Health Trust (‘the Trust’) wishes to build new mental health treatment facilities. Following a consultation carried out by the Trust's local Clinical Commissioning Groups and NHS England, the Trust is to build two new hospital facilities, 1 at each of the Springfield and Tolworth Sites. The Springfield site is in Tooting and the Tolworth site is in Kingston upon Thames.
In order to fund the construction of the new facilities, the Trust is exploring the redevelopment of Springfield University Hospital which stands on a 33 hectare site, in Tooting, in the London Borough of Wandsworth. The hospital's main building dates back to the 1840's. Large parts of the site consist of open space, including an area currently used for a 9 hole golf course. Current thinking is that both new hospitals are to be funded by the sale of parts of the Springfield site to a developer or developers for residential use. Plots will be released in phases, the idea being that an incrementally higher standard of residential development will be associated with each phase. Some 13 hectares of the site will be preserved as Metropolitan Open Land, creating the potential for homes to be built facing onto parkland.
The Trust has outline planning permission for the re-development of the Springfield site as well as for the Tolworth site. The Springfield permission contemplates the erection of 25 000 sqm replacement mental health facilities (Use Class C2/C2A); 839 residential dwellings (including up to 262 dwellings within 2 existing Grade II listed buildings and 56 extra care residential apartments) (Use Class C3); 9 200 sqm elderly persons' care home (including up to 50 close care units) (Use Class C2); 240 sqm of retail floorspace (Use Class A1); a school (Use Class D1); 3 500 sqm of non-residential floorspace: Use Class A1 (up to 160 sqm), A2 (up to 200 sqm), A3 (up to 300 sqm), A4 (up to 250 sqm), B1 (up to 200 sqm), D1 (up to 1 195 sqm), or D2 (up to 1 195 sqm); landscaped public park, other private and public open space; construction of a combined cooling, heat and power energy centre, associated landscaping, parking, roads, access and infrastructure and other associated works.
The London Borough of Wandsworth's planning reference is application number 2010/3703.
With regard to the Tolworth site, the Trust has outline planning permission for the demolition of 9 530 sqm of existing buildings, the retention of 6 870 sqm and the erection of 12 330 sqm of new facilities. The Royal Borough of Kingston Upon Thames' planning reference is 14/10290/OUT.
The Trust has submitted a Strategic Business Case to NHS England and the Department of Health which has been approved. The Trust is now developing an Outline Business Case (‘OBC’). If the OBC is approved the Trust will then draw up a Full Business Case (‘FBC’). The proposed redevelopment is unlikely to go ahead unless both the OBC and FBC are approved. The Trust wishes to carry out soft market testing to gather data in support of the OBC. On the assumption that the OBC is approved, the Trust would wish to engage fully with the market as part of the process of developing the FBC.
As part of the soft market testing, the Trust would want to meet with persons experienced in:
— funding or otherwise financing large scale redevelopment;
— large scale residential property development;
— provision and or maintenance of highways and associated infrastructure;
— the delivery and operation of a combined heat and power plant;
— the carrying out of large scale landscaping and associated maintenance;
— the provision and management of affordable and social housing; and
— the construction of mental health hospital facilities (such persons together ‘Potential Participants’).
Given the wide range of facilities contemplated by the outline planning permission for the Springfield site, it is foreseeable that some Potential Participants may wish to form consortiums.
The Trust is holding a bidders day for Potential Participants on the 20.5.2015 at the Trust's conference suite at Springfield Hospital. The event, which is by invitation only, will run from 18:00-21:00. Potential Participants are asked to contact Sarah Sharrock (details above) to obtain an invitation. Invitations will only be issued to those Potential Participants who are able to evidence a track record of successful involvement in projects comparable with the Trust's Estate Modernisation Programme.
Until the OBC has been approved, the Trust does not want to be distracted from the provision of its core services. Potential Participants that are not invited to the Bidder's Day are asked not to contact the Trust at the present time. The Trust's time-table anticipates that the OBC will be approved late summer/early autumn 2015. Once the OBC has been approved an OJEU Notice will be advertised.
Lots
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