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Kent County Council taking a long lease of part of the newly-constructed Park Farm Special Educational Needs School, Folkestone

Meeting: 12/04/2016 - Property Sub-Committee (Item 69)

69 Approval for the County Council to take a new lease from the Kent SEN Trust School at Park Farm Road, Folkestone, for the benefit of the Disabled Children's Service pdf icon PDF 74 KB

To consider and endorse or make recommendations to the Cabinet Member for Corporate and Democratic Services on the proposed decision. as set out in the report.

 

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Minutes:

Mr J Grimes, Estates Surveyor, was in attendance for this item.

 

1.            The Cabinet Member, Mr Cooke, introduced the report and explained that the proposed decision was linked to the Special Schools Review, although that review would not impact on the proposed new lease arrangements. Mrs Spore added that the new joint County Council and Health Service facility, for which the new lease was proposed, would provide health services for children at the new combined Special Educational Needs school and in the surrounding area.

 

2.            The new facility and the proposed new lease were welcomed.

 

3.            RESOLVED that the decision proposed to be taken by the Cabinet Member for Corporate and Democratic Services,  to enter into a new lease at the Foxwood and Highview SEN School on Park Farm Road, Folkestone, and for the Director of Infrastructure, in consultation with the Cabinet Member for Corporate and Democratic Services, to finalise terms and complete the transaction, be endorsed.