Leading construction group Bouygues has been awarded a £100-million ($108.3 million) contract by Westminster City Council to design and build the first phase of the Ebury Bridge Estate renewal project.

The overall project will see a full redevelopment of the entire Ebury Bridge council housing estate in the London district of Pimlico, reported the Construction Index.

The existing flats will be demolished – more than 300 of them – and 758 new ones built in their place. The first phase includes 216 new homes across two residential blocks, it stated.

Bouygues UK is set to start work later this year and, subject to planning approval, begin building new homes in 2021.

The contract notice for the Ebury Bridge Estate renewal project put the value of the first phase last year as £97 million, with the complete project budgeted at £350 million, the report said.

Bouygues UK is already working in Westminster to build housing, a sports hall and a community space as part of the council’s Church Street regeneration programme, it added.