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That, subject to the agreement of the detailed financial information for the expansion set out in item 15 in Part 2 of this agenda, the business case be approved for the expansion of Guildford County School to provide an additional 20 places per year (100 places in total). 

Reasons for Decisions:

The proposal supports the Authority’s statutory obligation to provide sufficient school places relative to demand.

[The decisions on this item can be called in by either the Council Overview Board or the Education and Skills Scrutiny Board]

The Cabinet Member for Schools, Skills and Educational Achievement introduced the first of two reports for school expansions on the agenda today. She requested that Cabinet approve the business case for the expansion of Guildford County School, which is an Academy, so that it could expand from a 160 place per year 5 Form of Entry secondary (800 places) to a 180 place per year 6 Form of Entry secondary (900 places) to meet the demand for 100 additional secondary places in Guildford from September 2017.

She informed Members that a number of primary school expansions had taken place in the area and plans now need to be put in place to ensure that there would be adequate secondary places in the area. She said that the project would create a three-storey extension and also would provide a multi-use games area to help mitigate the limited recreation space at this school.

Finally, she confirmed that following the consultation process, the School’s Governing Body had unanimously agreed to a Published Admission Number (PAN) increase to 180 from September 2017, subject to approval of the business case for the school’s expansion.

RESOLVED:

That, subject to the agreement of the detailed financial information for the expansion set out in item 15 in Part 2 of this agenda, the business case be approved for the expansion of Guildford County School to provide an additional 20 places per year (100 places in total). 

Reasons for Decisions:

The proposal supports the Authority’s statutory obligation to provide sufficient school places relative to demand.