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St Mary's Oxted Church of England Junior School - Schools Basic Need Expansion Project

Meeting: 26/09/2017 - Cabinet (Item 152)

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Decision:

RESOLVED:

 

That, subject to the agreement of the detailed financial information for the expansion set out in the submitted Part 2 report, the business case for the provision of an additional one Form of Entry worth of junior places in Oxted & Limpsfield be approved.

 

Reasons for decisions

 

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

 

[The decisions on this item are subject to call in by the Children and Education Select Committee and/or the Corporate Services Select Committee]

Minutes:

The Cabinet Member for Education introduced the report and advised Cabinet that St Mary’s was an outstanding school. Not content to rest on its laurels, St Mary’s was currently in the process of Down’s Way Infant School to create an all through Primary School in Oxted. The additional 480 places that the building project provided would ensure that there were enough school places in the area despite demographic pressures created by an increasing population. Mrs Lewis stated that she was confident St Mary’s was capable of retaining its ‘Outstanding’ Ofsted rating while construction work was taking place to provide the additional school places.

 

 

RESOLVED:

 

That, subject to the agreement of the detailed financial information for the expansion set out in the submitted Part 2 report, the business case for the provision of an additional one Form of Entry worth of junior places in Oxted & Limpsfield be approved.

 

Reasons for decisions

 

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