Issue - meetings

1.         Mr Shovelton and Mrs White introduced the report and summarised the consultation process, which had produced a largely positive response in favour of the proposals.  In response to a question, they explained how the proposed new school buildings would fit into the site; if it did not prove feasible to use part of the site for the SMILE centre, this facility would be provided at other sites nearby, and dual use of the field would require an upgrade of the entrance and fencing off and would hence be a project in phase two or three of the development. 

2.         RESOLVED that:-

a)   the Education Cabinet Committee endorse the decision proposed to be taken by the Cabinet Member for Education and Health Reform, to issue a public notice to increase the designated number of The Foreland School, adding 40 additional places (the relocation and rebuilding of the school not being subject to statutory education public notice as the site is within two miles as the crow flies of the current site); and

b)   subject to no objections being received to the public notice:

            (i)      increase the designated number, subject to planning for the new school buildings on the Pysons Road site;

(ii)      allocate £9,650,000 from the Education, Learning and Skills     Capital Budget;

(iii)     authorise the Director of Property and Infrastructure Support,           in consultation with the Director of Governance and Law, to enter into any necessary contracts/agreements on behalf of the County Council; and

(iv)    authorise the Director of Property and Infrastructure Support to be the nominated Authority Representative within the relevant agreements and to enter into variations as envisaged under the contracts.