Decision details

Following an initial public consultation with all stakeholders, a statutory notice period has taken place on a proposal to expand Broomfield South SILC by 100 places, as part of a school rebuild and the establishment of a permanent satellite site for post-16 provision.

This notice period ran for 4 weeks from Wednesday 2nd October to Wednesday 30th October 2024.

Executive Board is asked to note the outcome of the statutory notice and make a final decision on the proposal.

Further to Minute No. 44, 18 September 2024, the Director of Children and Families submitted a report presenting the outcomes from the published statutory notice regarding a proposal to expand Broomfield South Special Inclusion Learning Centre (SILC) by 100 places, as part of a school rebuild and the establishment of a permanent satellite site for post-16 provision. The report sought a final decision in respect of this proposal.

The Executive Member introduced the report and highlighted that in line with agreed process, she had considered the 2 objections received during the Statutory Notice period in liaison with the Chair of the Children and Families Scrutiny Board. In line with that discussion, the Chair’s recommendation to the Scrutiny Board was that the 2 objections received were planning and highways related matters and therefore did not require additional scrutiny as these would be addressed through the planning process. The Children and Families Scrutiny Board unanimously agreed with the that recommendation.

Following consideration of Appendix 2 to the submitted report designated as being exempt from publication under the provisions of Access to Information Procedure Rule 10.4(3), which was considered in private at the conclusion of the public part of the meeting, it was

RESOLVED –

(a)  That the outcome of the statutory notice period, as detailed within the submitted report, be noted;

(b)  That the recommendation to expand Broomfield South Special Inclusion Learning Centre (SILC) by 100 places, as part of a school rebuild, and the establishment of a permanent satellite site for post-16 provision, be approved;

(c)  That the resolutions from the submitted report be exempted from the Call In process for the reasons as set out in paragraphs 41-43 of the submitted report;

(d)  That it be noted that the implementation of the rebuild and expansion of Broomfield South SILC will be subject to the outcome of further detailed design work and planning applications, as indicated in paragraphs 28 and 29 of the submitted report;

(e)  That it be noted that the responsible officer for the implementation of such matters is the Deputy Director for Learning.

(The Council’s Executive and Decision Making Procedure Rules state that a decision may be declared as being exempt from the Call In process by the decision taker if it is considered that the matter is urgent and any delay would seriously prejudice the Council’s, or the public’s interests. In line with this, the resolutions contained within this minute were exempted from the Call In process, as per resolution (c) above, and for the reasons as set out within sections 41 - 43 of the submitted report)

As prescribed by: Section 19(3) of the Education and Inspections Act 2006; The School Organisation (Prescribed Alterations to Maintained Schools) (England) Regulations 2013.

Parents/carers, staff and governors of Broomfield South SILC, Head teachers of city wide primary, secondary schools and all SILCs, SEND support groups, all ward members, Dioceses, local MP and other relevant stakeholders.