Revealed: Shortlist for £150m work (From Echo)

Revealed: Shortlist for £150m work

8:17pm Wednesday 6th February 2008 in News By Jon Austin

BASILDON Council has unveiled a shortlist of development groups battling to build the £30million sports village in Gloucester Park and deliver the £120million Wickford masterplan.

The council has whittled down lists of four groups vying to regenerate Wick-ford and three to build the sports centre.

The four shortlisted are:

• Barratt Homes - one of the UK's biggest housebuilders

• Bellway Homes, which is redeveloping the Laindon School site

• Community Solutions for Regeneration, made up of Family Mosaic, Morgan Sindell Investments and house builders Lovell, who are rebuilding Craylands and Five Links

• St Modwen Properties, which is developing four town centre projects in Medway, Kent.

The three groups on the shortlist for the sports village are:

• DC Leisure Management, which runs 118 leisure centres UK-wide

• Orion Land and Leisure, which built Cardiff International Sports Village

• Community Solutions for Leisure - made up of Morgan Sindell Investments, Sport and Leisure Management and S&P Architects.

Council leader Malcolm Buckley said: "They are all high quality, substantial organisations with the clout and calibre to deliver the projects."