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Southend-on-Sea City Council

Strategic Planning - Integrated Needs Assessment 2025

ValueValue not published
Awarded
Published17 Oct 2025
RegionNationwide
Outcome — awarded
NATHANIEL LICHFIELD & PARTNERS LIMITED

This is a contract result notice, not an open opportunity. Details from the official award data.

Who to contact
procurementops@southend.gov.uk

The procurement contact named on the official notice.

The brief

Southend-on-Sea City Council is seeking to appoint a suitably qualified consultant to prepare an 'Integrated Needs Assessment' addressing the housing, employment, retail and leisure needs of the City.

The study will form a part of the evidence base supporting the preparation of the Southend New Local Plan.

The Integrated Needs Assessment should provide a common evidence base on the need for housing, employment, and retail and leisure uses within the City.

It should provide conclusions on the quantitative and qualitative development needs for the City over the plan period, and ensure assumptions within the evidence base across different uses are complementary and consistent with each other.

The outputs should be focussed on informing the Regulation 19 Local Plan.

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

01

Southend-on-Sea City Council is seeking to appoint

Southend-on-Sea City Council is seeking to appoint a suitably qualified consultant to prepare an 'Integrated Needs Assessment' addressing the housing, employment, retail and leisure needs of the City.

02

The Integrated Needs Assessment should provide

The Integrated Needs Assessment should provide a common evidence base on the need for housing, employment, and retail and leisure uses within the City.

03

It should provide conclusions on the quantitative

It should provide conclusions on the quantitative and qualitative development needs for the City over the plan period, and ensure assumptions within the evidence base across different uses are complementary and consistent with each other.

04

The outputs should be focussed on informing

The outputs should be focussed on informing the Regulation 19 Local Plan.

Derived from the notice text — always confirm against the original documents.

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Source & provenance
OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-05ce9e
Stage
award · Awarded
Source
Find a Tender
Buyer ref
066212-2025
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