Delamere Forest Concession Opportunity
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This is a large award for Recreation, Culture & Sport — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 3,522 valued Recreation, Culture & Sport tenders in our corpus.
Forestry England have a potential future opportunity at Delamere Forest for the provision of a concession installation.
Forestry England are currently researching potential commercial uses for the current bike hire building on site.
We are seeking interest and feedback from the wider market as to potential appropriate activities/services that would be a cohesive fit with the forestry environment and our visitor profile at the Delamere site.
Delamere Forest is the largest woodland in Cheshire, covering an area of 972 hectares.
A mixture of woodland, internationally important meres and mosses, as well as Old Pale Heights – the highest point in the Cheshire Plain – and several Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI).
Delamere has excellent transport links and lies between the Manchester, Liverpool and Chester conurbations.
Welcoming approximately 750,000 visitors each year, Delamere is a popular destination for outdoor activities like walking, running, cycling and horse riding.
There are also a number of annual sports events, as well as Forestry England’s annual music series, Forest Live.
As one of Forestry England’s flagship sites, the visitor facilities are centred around the state-of-the-art Visitor Centre, which was built in 2020.
Facilities include a number of carparks, a café, education, Go Ape, waymarked trails and several long-distance Public Rights of Way that cut through the forest.
There’s also a Forest Holidays location within Delamere, consisting of 62 luxury cabins and a retreat.
Forestry England are currently scoping our requirements to ensure that any future tender documentation accurately reflects the offerings of the market.
We invite companies from the market to register their interest in this future requirement and provide feedback on potential clarifications and the feasibility of our emerging plans.
We also invite suppliers to provide suggestions on potential concessions that they believe would be a suitable fit for the Delamere forest site.
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Forestry England are currently scoping our requirements
Forestry England are currently scoping our requirements to ensure that any future tender documentation accurately reflects the offerings of the market.
We invite companies from the market
We invite companies from the market to register their interest in this future requirement and provide feedback on potential clarifications and the feasibility of our emerging plans.
We also invite suppliers to provide suggestions
We also invite suppliers to provide suggestions on potential concessions that they believe would be a suitable fit for the Delamere forest site.
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- planning · Planning
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- 041192-2025
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