Issue - meetings

To consider the report of the Director of Children and Families which describes the outcome of the consultation undertaken regarding proposals to permanently expand primary school provision at Moor Allerton Hall Primary School (PS) from 2FE to 3FE and which seeks permission to publish a Statutory Notice in respect of such proposals.

Further to Minute No. 138, 7^th February 2018, the Director of Children and Families submitted a report which detailed the outcome of the consultation undertaken regarding proposals to permanently expand primary school provision at Moor Allerton Hall Primary School from 2 form entry to 3 form entry and which sought permission to publish a Statutory Notice in respect of such proposals.

Responding to an enquiry, assurance was provided to the Board that the proposals being put forward were not simply a short term measure for that area.

Prior to the meeting, Board Members were in receipt of a re-circulated version of the submitted cover report, as it had been noted that parts of sections 3.13-3.14 and 4.3 of the original version had been either mis-formatted or had some text missing.

Having taken the resubmitted version of the cover report into consideration, it was

RESOLVED –

(a)  That the publication of a Statutory Notice on a proposal to permanently expand primary provision at Moor Allerton Hall Primary School from a capacity of 420 pupils to 630 pupils, with an increase in the admission number from 60 to 90, with effect from September 2019, be approved;

(b)  That it be noted that the previous proposals to form a through-school by joining together Moor Allerton Hall Primary School with Allerton Grange School, and to expand primary provision as part of that through-school, are not to be taken forward;

(c)  That approval be given to exempt the resolutions within this minute from the Call In process, for the reasons as set out within paragraph 4.5.2 of the submitted report;

(d)  That it be noted that the responsible officer for the implementation of such matters is the Head of Learning Systems.

(Under the provisions of Council Procedure Rule 16.5, Councillor A Carter required it to be recorded that he abstained from voting on the decisions referred to within this minute)

(The Council’s Executive and Decision Making Procedure Rules state that a decision may be declared as being exempt from the Call In process if it is considered that 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 detailed within section 4.5.2 of the submitted report)