Decision details

Request for the Authority To Spend, to upgrade Greenside Primary School’s meal provision from a receiver kitchen to a full 2 Form of Entry kitchen and servery.

The Director of Children’s and Families agreed to:

i.  Approve the total capital scheme cost of £1.03m inclusive of the previous approval noted below.

ii.  Note that a DCR was approved for capital of £434K in July 2017 for the provision of enabling works required to support the expansion of Greenside Primary School. 

iii.  Note that a budget of £4.2m was granted at Executive Board, at their meeting in February 2018 and this includes the capital costs for the DCR noted in ii.

iv.  Note that following an intensive review of the scheme, both from a sufficiency point of view where admission numbers were reducing rather than increasing, challenges around value for money, the proposed expansion scheme was revised. The scheme now addresses the requirements created as part of the bulge works, a kitchen expansion, additional classroom provision and an extension to the fence height.

v.  Note that the expansion is temporary for a period of seven years.

Information of the proposed upgrade will be provided to stakeholders (this will be information provision and not consultation).

School (staff, pupils, parents and governors) and elected members.