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Declarations of Interest To provide an opportunity for Members and Officers to declare any disclosable pecuniary and non-pecuniary interests in any item on the agenda. Minutes: There were no declarations of interest. |
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Public Speaking Time/Open Session In accordance with Procedure Rules Nos.11 and 35 a period of 10 minutes is allocated for members of the public to address the meeting on any matter relevant to the work of the meeting. Individual members of the public may speak for up to 5 minutes but the Chairman or person presiding will decide how the period of time allocated for public speaking will be apportioned where there are a number of speakers. Members of the public are not required to give notice to use this facility. However, as a matter of courtesy, a period of 24 hours’ notice is encouraged.
Members of the public wishing to ask a question at the meeting should provide at least three clear working days’ notice in writing and should include the question with that notice. This will enable an informed answer to be given.
Minutes: There were no members of the public present. |
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Proposed Expansion of Pebble Brook Primary, Wheelock Primary and Mobberley CE Primary To approve consultation on the proposed expansion of Pebble Brook Primary School, Wheelock Primary School and Mobberley CE Primary School. Additional documents:
Minutes: The Cabinet Member for Children and Family Services considered a report on the proposed expansion of Pebble Brook Primary School, Wheelock Primary School and Mobberley CE Primary School.
As the Strategic Commissioner of School Places, the Local Authority had a statutory duty to review provision within its area and to establish future demand.
Pupil forecasts indicated a shortfall in the number of primary school places due to changing populations and increasing demand in some areas of the Borough resulting in a forecast of only 8 spaces across all year groups and all primary schools by 2017. Proposals were therefore being made for the Sandbach, Crewe and Knutsford areas of the Borough to expand existing accommodation to meet this increasing demand and to ensure a level of operational surplus which is a level of spare capacity intended to accommodate reasonable journey times to school, some degree of parental choice, and flexibility to allow for mid-year entrants.
Officers had considered a number of issues, including the number of pupils in each school’s catchment area, the number of first preferences received for each school, the current size of the school together with the school sites and those suitable for expansion and the likely costs of extension. Suitable schools needed to be central to the areas where the extra places were required.
The decision on the proposal would be subject to the completion of an Equalities Impact Assessment (EIA), which would be presented to the Portfolio Holder prior to any decision.
RESOLVED
That permission be granted for officers to commence statutory consultation on the proposed expansion of the following schools:
Pebble Brook Primary to expand the school from 210 to 315 pupil places (from 1 form of entry to 1.5 forms of entry) with a proposed completion date of September 2013;
Wheelock Primary to expand the school from 210 to 315 pupil places (from 1 form of entry to 1.5 forms of entry) with a proposed completion date of September 2013; and
Mobberley CE Primary to expand the school from 140 to 210 pupil places (from an intake of 20 pupils to 30 pupils) and creating a 1 form of entry primary school) with a proposed completion date of September 2013.
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