The Provision of a Cinema-anchored, Leisure-led, Mixed Use Development - Royal Arcade, Crewe Town Centre

Cheshire East Council is seeking to procure a development partner to plan and deliver a comprehensive leisure-led, mixed-use scheme on the 1.85ha (4.57 acre) Royal Arcade site in Crewe town centre, which currently comprises 26 retail units and the town?s current bus station. This comprehensive high quality development will be anchored by a new cinema, include a new bus interchange and will combine new development on the whole or a substantial part of the site with enhancements to any retained elements, improved public realm and linkages with the remainder of the town centre.

The anticipated duration of the contract will be for a period of 5 years and the value attributed to it will be between £10m and £100m. The timescales and values given in this notice are estimations only and the Council gives no guarantee or warranty or makes any representation as to the accuracy of any indicative volumes.

Additional information: This procurement exercise will be conducted on Cheshire East Borough Council's electronic Contract andTender Management System at the www.the-chest.org.uk Organisations wishing to be considered for this contract must register their expression of interest and provide additional required information through the Contract and Tender Management System. The project reference on The Chest is DN106042.

If and when the council continues with the dialogue and tender stage, this will be done in whole or in part via electronic means using the Contract and Tender Management System. The values given in this notice are only estimations, final figures shall be considered through the competitive dialogue process.

The Council gives no guarantee or warranty or makes any representation as to the accuracy of any indicative volumes? any expenditure,work or effort undertaken prior to Contract Award is accordingly a matter solely for the commercial judgement of potential operators. Cheshire East