McLaren wins next phase of housing scheme going up opposite Chelsea Barracks in deal worth £229m

McLaren has won the second phase of a £350m scheme to rebuild a 1930s estate in Pimlico.

Westminster council has previously described 779-home Ebury Bridge scheme, designed by Astudio Architects, as the borough’s “largest and most significant redevelopment project in a generation”.

Bouygues carried out the £100m first phase on the scheme which sits in the shadow of the upmarket residential job built by Mace and Multiplex for Qatari Diar at Chelsea Barracks.

Phase one of the scheme completed in December 2024, with 226 homes delivered, 100 of which were for social rent.

McLaren’s deal is worth £229m with this phase delivering an additional 334 homes, 228 of which are for social rent.

Phase 2 of the project comprises three independent and two adjoined buildings, that, McLaren said, “required four complex building safety applications to the Building Safety Regulator, which [we] successfully submitted and had validated by the regulator”.

Paul Woodhams, managing director for regeneration at McLaren’s construction arm, added: “Having invested time and resources in the pre-construction period, the design has been completed to a high standard ahead of the main construction work starting later this year.”

Construction is due to complete in May 2029.

The overall scheme was granted planning by then London mayor Boris Johnson in 2015.

John F Hunt carried out demolition work at the estate ahead of Bouygues starting in 2021.