A £16million contract for the next phase of a project that could bring more than 800 homes to Barrow has been tendered.

Westmorland and Furness is seeking a firm to carry out design, remediation and construction works for Barrow's Marina Village project.

Phase one of a project to make the first six hectares of the Marina Village site, between Cavendish Dock and Salthouse Road, ready for development was completed earlier this year.

It will ultimately support the delivery of 214 housing units.

Positioned near to BAE Systems and the forthcoming university campus, the Marina Village will eventually provide 808 new homes, a nature conservation area and new public open spaces scattered throughout.

Phase two of the project, with a business case backed by £24.8 million of Brownfield, Infrastructure and Land funding from Homes England, is expected to develop a further 19 hectares of the site.

In a tender for the next stage of the development, Westmorland and Furness Council said: "This Tender concerns Phase Two of Marina Village.

"The Council wishes to appoint a design and build contractor to remediate the site to broadly the same standard as Phase 1 and to install some associated enabling infrastructure on the site to assist future housing suppliers to develop the site for 808 homes (Phase 1 and Phase 2 together)."

The project is expected to be completed in 2026.

Explaining the background to the site, the tender said: "Barrow Waterfront (historically known as Marina Village) is a 25-hectare brownfield site in Barrow-in-Furness on the north side of Buccleuch Dock (Site).

"The Site currently consists of an area of unused open scrubland within the central area of the site. Towards the northwest of the Site, there are commercial premises around Cavendish Dock Road and hardstanding areas along the northern boundary with Salthouse Road.

"The adopted Barrow Borough Local Plan identifies this Site as a strategic housing allocation and is one of the largest housing sites within the new Westmorland and Furness Authority."

Explaining the project Cllr Judith Derbyshire, cabinet member for housing and homelessness at the council, said with more jobs being created in Barrow 'we need to provide the houses for the future, for the future workforce but also for those people in the area needing housing'.