Agenda item

(Report by Mr P Leeson, Corporate Director, Education, Learning and Skills)

(Mr K Shovelton, Director of Education Planning and Access, was present for this item)

1.            The Cabinet Committee considered a report that provided details of the planned expansions and proposed decisions for the Cabinet Member for Education and Health Reform to allocate the capital funds from the Basic Need budget and secured delegated authority for the agreement of individual terms and conditions for each contract awarded to ensure the necessary expansions were completed in a timely and cost efficient manner.

2.            Mr Shovelton gave his assurance that each of the schools expansions had an individual timetable and planning applications and consultations had been factored in and he was confident that the works would meet their deadlines

3.            The Chairman then put all the recommendations to the vote, which was carried.  Mr Scobie requested that his abstention to the vote be noted.

4.            RESOLVED that:-

(1)   the response to a  question by a Member in paragraph 2 above be noted;  and

(2a) the Education Cabinet Committee endorses the decisions to be taken by the Cabinet Member for Education and Health Reform to allocate the capital funds from the Basic Need budget for the implementation of the following decisions:

                                i.      Decision 12/02007/2 - Proposal to expand St Botolph’s Church of England Primary School (Aided), Gravesham allocate ££3,035,500;

                              ii.      Decision 12/02008/2 - Proposal to expand Lady Boswell’s Church of England Primary School (Aided), Sevenoaks allocate £1,500,000;

                            iii.      Decision 12/02011/2 - Proposal to expand Stone, St Mary’s Church of England Primary School, Dartford allocate £1,500,000;

                             iv.      Decision 12/02016 - Proposal to expand Oakfield Community Primary School, Dartford allocate £2,350,000;

                               v.      Decision 12/02021 - Proposal to expand Maypole Primary School, Dartford allocate £1,716,000:

                             vi.      Decision 12/02010/2 - Proposal to expand St Mark’s Church of England Primary School, Tunbridge Wells allocate £2,500,000;

                           vii.      Decision 12/02009 - Proposal to expand Southborough Church of England Primary School, Tunbridge Wells allocate £3,300,000;

                         viii.      Decision 12/02015 - Proposal to expand Langton Green Primary School, Tunbridge Wells allocate £2,400,000;

                             ix.      Decision 13/00070 - Proposal to expand Lamberhurst St Mary’s Church of England Primary School, Tunbridge Wells allocate £703,813;

                               x.      Decision 12/01962/2 - Proposal to expand The Discovery School, Kings Hill allocate £299,975;

                             xi.      Decision 13/00002 - Proposal to expand Bromstone Primary School, Broadstairs allocate £2,800,000;

                           xii.      Decision 13/00008 - Proposal to expand Ospringe CE (Voluntary Controlled) Primary School, Ospringe, Faversham allocate £650,000;

                         xiii.      Decision 12/01976 - Proposal to expand St John’s Church of England Primary School, Maidstone allocate £1,717,985

                         xiv.      Proposal to expand Westlands Primary School (Academy), Sittingbourne allocate £450,000 (the Academy completed its own consultation process in accordance with the law).

(2b)the Director of Property and Infrastructure, in consultation with the Director of Governance and Law, be authorised to enter into any necessary contracts/agreements on behalf of the County Council. 

(2c) the Director of Property and Infrastructure be authorised to be the nominated Authority Representative within the relevant agreements and to enter into variations as envisaged under the contracts.

(2d)  in relation to other required officer actions not specifically delegated above, the Executive Scheme of Delegation for Officers as set out in Appendix 2 Part 4 of the Constitution (and the directorate schemes of sub-delegation made thereunder) provide the governance pathway for implementation by officers be noted.