Agenda item

To consider the responses received during the representation period and to approve the closure of Macclesfield High School on 31 August 2011 if, by the date of closure, an agreement has been made for the establishment of an Academy on the same site.

Consideration was given to the outcome of the statutory public notice and the responses received during the representation period regarding the closure of Macclesfield High School on 31 August 2011; the closure of the High School being contingent upon the opening of an Academy on the existing site on 1 September 2011. 

RESOLVED

1.    That approval be given to the closure of Macclesfield High School on 31 August 2011.

2.    That approval be given to the recommendation that closure is to take effect only if, by the date of closure, an agreement has been made under section 482(1) of the Education Act 1996 for the establishment of an Academy on the same site.