EWELL GROVE INFANT AND NURSERY SCHOOL, WEST EWELL INFANT AND NURSERY SCHOOL AND DANETREE JUNIOR SCHOOL
Additional documents:
Decision:
RESOLVED:
1. That the business case for the expansion of Ewell Grove School at a total cost, as set out in the Part 2 report, be approved.
2. That the arrangements by which a variation of up to 10% of the total value may be agreed by the Deputy Chief Executive and Strategic Director for Children, Schools and Families, in consultation with the Cabinet Member for Schools, Skills and Educational Achievement, the Cabinet Member for Business Services and Resident Experience and the Leader of the Council, be approved.
Reasons for Decisions:
The proposal supports the Authority’s statutory obligation to provide sufficient school places to meet the needs of the population in the Epsom and Ewell area by providing 240 junior places when and where they are needed.
[The decision on this item may be called in by either the Council Overview Board or the Education and Skills Scrutiny Board]
Minutes:
The Cabinet Member for Schools, Skills and Educational Achievement said that this report contained the confidential, financial and value for money information relating to item 7 and that the expansion of Ewell Grove Infant School was the last of three interdependent expansion projects in the area. She said that it had proved challenging in terms of access, ground levels and drainage and was also in a planning conservation area.
RESOLVED:
1. That the business case for the expansion of Ewell Grove School at a total cost, as set out in the Part 2 report, be approved.
2. That the arrangements by which a variation of up to 10% of the total value may be agreed by the Deputy Chief Executive and Strategic Director for Children, Schools and Families, in consultation with the Cabinet Member for Schools, Skills and Educational Achievement, the Cabinet Member for Business Services and Resident Experience and the Leader of the Council, be approved.
Reasons for Decisions:
The proposal supports the Authority’s statutory obligation to provide sufficient school places to meet the needs of the population in the Epsom and Ewell area by providing 240 junior places when and where they are needed.