Awarded contract

NewcastleGateshead Local Plan - Retail and Town Centre Study

Details

Buyer: Gateshead Council
Supplier(s): Lambert Smith Hampton Group Limited
Value: £46,822
Duration: 4 months
Topic: Urban planning services
Published: 3 September 2026
Source: uk:find_a_tender

Tender description

Gateshead Council and Newcastle City Council are jointly preparing the new NewcastleGateshead Local Plan, which will set the spatial strategy and policies for development up to 2045. To support this work, the Councils have commissioned a Retail and Town Centre Study to provide a robust and up-to-date evidence base to inform plan-making, policy development and decision-making relating to retail, town centres, leisure and other main town centre uses. ## Contract award

Timeline

Completed: Award published3 September 2026
Current notice
Completed: Award date3 September 2026
Next: Contract expiry date14 January 2027in 2 months

About the buyer

Gateshead Council buys as a local authority procuring goods, works and services for the borough. Many goods and materials contracts run as framework agreements lasting a fixed term before renewal. Gateshead Council is migrating its existing frameworks and dynamic purchasing systems onto Open.

Over the past 5 years, most of Gateshead Council's contract awards have been in software and information systems, construction work and health and social work.

Decision makers

Connect with the people behind this procurement.

Job title	Phone number	Work email
Head of Procurement	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@gateshead-council.gov
Commercial Director	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@gateshead-council.gov
Procurement Manager	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@gateshead-council.gov
Category Lead	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@gateshead-council.gov
Senior Buyer	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@gateshead-council.gov
Contracts Manager	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@gateshead-council.gov