Contractor understood to be preferred bidder for 鈥楥ovent Garden-style鈥� scheme next to Borough Market

Visualisation of Dirty Lane

The Southwark redevelopment will see the revival of Elizabethan street names such as Dirty Lane

Wates is being lined up to build the 拢300m 鈥淐ovent Garden-style鈥� scheme next to Borough Market in London, 好色先生TV has learned.

The contractor is understood to be the preferred bidder for the scheme designed by architect SPPARC for the area located immediately west of London鈥檚 foodie destination, having seen off competition from rival bidders Mace and Kier.

Keltbray is already carrying out enabling works at the site, which includes the former building occupied by wine and whisky attraction Vinopolis.

The wider project includes: Gleeds as quantity surveyor; Pell Frischmann as structural engineer, and Meinhardt as M&E engineer.

The site, which also incorporates several rail arches, a car park and an old warehouse, is being revamped by developer Sherwood Street and investment fund manager Meyer Bergman, which are also behind the redevelopment of Whiteleys shopping centre in Bayswater.

Tom Sherwood, owner of Sherwood Street, previously told 好色先生TV that the site was 鈥渙ne of the last locations鈥� left in London for a scheme 鈥渙f this size鈥�.

The development will create 18,375m虏 of space, including 10,369m虏 of retail, 5,761m虏 of office space and a cinema.

The designs also aim to reinstate lost medieval north/south pedestrian links through the site

Trevor Morris, SPPARC

The scheme also proposes to regenerate a set of nearby railway arches and create new routes through the poorly accessible spot, as well as reviving the original Elizabethan street names to the area, such as Dirty Lane.

Plans for the Stoney Street project were originally submitted in August 2015.

However, following comments from planning officers, consultees and residents, they were revised and resubmitted in May last year, gaining planning approval from Southwark council last summer.

SPPARC principal Trevor Morris previously said the designs for the new buildings had been 鈥渋nfluenced by the surrounding architecture鈥�, adding that the designs also aim to reinstate 鈥渓ost medieval north/south pedestrian links through the site鈥�.

Meyer Bergman declined to comment. Wates was unavailable for comment.

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