London Development Panel 2 (archive information)

The panel has been used to secure development partners for 18 projects which will deliver 6,600 new homes, circa 50 per cent of which will be affordable, on sites varying from 50 up to 1,000 homes. 

Notable projects include St Ann’s Hospital which is delivering 60 per cent affordable homes and Hackney Wick which is delivering 190 affordable homes and 4000m2 of commercial space.

Building on the success of LDP2, the GLA plans to capture the knowledge, expertise and lessons learnt during the life of the panel and produce a hub of procurement resources to support public landowners when preparing sites for development.

This is following extensive consultation with public landowners, panel members, commercial advisors and procurement professionals.

This next phase will involve the production of template tender documents and an updated, precedent form of development agreement, as well as guidance for procurement processes and embedding design quality, sustainability and social value within them.  This will help enable public landowners to adopt a robust and consistent approach during procurements and commercial negotiations.

Guidance documents will be produced covering the following:

• site feasibility studies
• soft market testing
• creating development briefs
• procurement, partnership and disposal strategies
• managing procurement processes
• evaluating bids
• development agreements and joint ventures.

The resources will be created in collaboration with GLA Group organisations with support from procurement, legal, commercial and design advisors and will be made available later this year.

The Mayor has identified London’s housing crisis as one of the biggest barriers to prosperity, growth and fairness facing Londoners.

His draft London Plan sets out a wide range of policies to significantly increase the supply of housing in the capital.

It includes identified capacity for 65,000 new homes a year and a long-term strategic target for 50 per cent of all new homes built to be genuinely affordable.

The release of surplus, publicly-owned land for residential development has a key role to play in meeting these targets.

Recognising this, a new London Development Panel was established and is an efficient means of accelerating the delivery of new homes on public land. It was a key tool of Homes for Londoners - the umbrella organisation for housing delivery in London, led by the Mayor.

The new London Development Panel, known as LDP2, was a single-lot framework of 29 well established developers, house builders, contractors and Registered Providers of Social Housing (RPs) who were carefully selected through a rigorous competitive procurement process.

The Panel offered comprehensive development and construction services and could be used by public landowners for sites in Greater London, providing a streamlined and efficient method for selecting development partners for their sites.

LDP2 replaced the first London Development Panel which expired in 2017. In summary, LDP2:

• was a framework for residential-led development to support the Mayor’s ambition to accelerate housing development
• offered a quick and efficient means of selecting a development partner in comparison to other procurement methods
• offered a comprehensive range of development services
• delivered cost savings through the Panel’s defined Mini-Competition process and standardised set of Call-off Contracts
• was available free of charge to public landowners and Registered Providers who sign an Access Agreement with the GLA
• could be used for both development and contracting opportunities in Greater London
• offered new flexibilities around how Panel Members can bid in mini-competitions;
• ran for a period of four years ending on 8 August 2022. GLA extended the Panel by one year.