Southend-on-Sea Borough Council and Swan Housing Association

have established a new joint venture partnership to deliver the regeneration of the Queensway estate.

This follows full council approval of Swan Housing Association as preferred bidder in February 2019 following a 10 month procurement process that started in March 2018.

The joint venture partnership, called Porters Place Southend LLP, has now been formed and will work on creating a full masterplan prepared for the site. This will involve further consultation with residents, local businesses and other key stakeholders and the LLP's ambition is to submit its masterplan for planning approval in 2020. Southend-on-Sea Borough Council will be writing to residents to confirm this exciting news and to let them know what to expect for the next stages of this project.

Andy Lewis, deputy chief executive of Southend-on-Sea Borough Council, said: "This is another important milestone in the regeneration of the Queensway estate and we look forward to working together to deliver this regeneration. This project will not only provide better housing and a better place for those currently living on the estate, it will also help to make this area a key entrance into our town centre and connect what will be a thriving new community with it and help to deliver a key part of our resident led ambition for 2050. This is really just the beginning and there is much more work to be done. We are now collectively focused on the next stages. This includes working with stakeholders, including residents and businesses to prepare a masterplan for submission for planning approval and more will be announced in due course."

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John Synnuck, CEO of Swan Housing Association added: "We've been taking on complex regenerations just like Better Queensway for the last 25 years and so we are delighted to now have entered into partnership with Southend-on-Sea Borough Council so that, working together, we can bring about the long-awaited regeneration of Queensway. Our teams are very much looking forward to working with the council, the residents and local stakeholders at Queensway to develop a masterplan for Queensway which will make it a great place to live and work and a place where everyone in Southend-on-Sea wants to go.

"As part of Porters Place Southend LLP, we will work with you to transform Queensway from an isolated and aging estate into a thriving community right in the centre of Southend-on-Sea. We're experts at supporting residents and local stakeholders through regenerations and we will be there every step of the way, with the council and South Essex Homes, to support you to feel at home. We look forward to meeting you all in the coming months."