fabrik leads Homes England framework team

fabrik is delighted to have been awarded a place on Homes England’s new Development and Regeneration Technical Services (DaRTS) framework, which runs from 2023 to 2027.

We are leading one of ten teams selected for the new Lot 2 Placemaking, Masterplanning and Design Services Panel, as well as being sub-consultants to WSP and CampbellReith’s teams for the Lot 1 End-to-End Technical and Professional Services Panel. The new two-panel framework replaces the existing multi-disciplinary technical services framework, which expired earlier this year.

Through the introduction of the Placemaking Panel, Homes England aims to create the conditions to build the right teams to help deliver excellent, high quality and sustainable places. The services to be provided include masterplanning, architecture, landscape architecture, ecology, planning and stakeholder and community engagement. We are delighted to have Ceres Property, Cratus, Kanda, Luken Beck, Marengo Communications, RM_A, Vincent+Gorbing, Woolf Bond Planning and WSP working alongside us on our team.

The framework will be used by Homes England and also be made available to other public bodies as part of Homes England’s enabling role, which includes central government departments and their arm’s length bodies and agencies, non-departmental public bodies, NHS bodies, local authorities, registered providers, health, police, fire and rescue, education, and charities and devolved administrations.

Superseding the former Homes and Communities Agency, Homes England was founded in 2018 as non-departmental public body to fund new affordable housing in England. The organisation is responsible for significant land holdings across the country.

fabrik were subconsultants on the previous framework, working on flagship Homes England schemes, including a 865-home scheme at Panshanger, Welwyn Garden City (pictured), and a 5,000-home Garden Village at Heathlands, Kent.