Issue details

Design and Cost Report and Tender Acceptance for the expansion project at Moor Allerton Hall Primary School for September 2019

Following approval of the statutory process Moor Allerton Hall Primary School is due to expand to three forms of entry with effect from September 2019.  This request seeks to secure funding to enter into the design and build contract with the appointed construction company and to complete all tasks subsumed within the construction contract.  In brief this includes all necessary internal remodelling, enhancement of welfare facilities, external on-site works and construction of the new teaching block as necessary to enable Moor Allerton Hall to meet its new net capacity of 630 pupils.

Decision type: Key Decision

Reason Key: Expenditure > £250,000;

Decision status: Recommendations Approved

Wards affected: Moortown;

Notice of proposed decision first published: 23/10/2018

Decision due: 13 Feb 2019 by Executive Board

Lead director: Director of Children and Families

Department: Children and Families

Contact: Christopher Gosling, Estate Management - Development Officer 0113 37 87198 Email: christopher.gosling@leeds.gov.uk.

Consultation process

The formal proposal to expand the school was subject to a separate statutory consultation process.  The required construction project arising from this has been subject to separate consultation with the parties noted below.  Ward member briefings have taken place prior to planning being submitted, further to this a multiple pre-planning drop-in sessions were held at the school for parents, carers and local residents.

Consultees

The proposal to expand Moor Allerton Hall Primary School has been subject to the following consultees; Executive Member for Learning, Skills and Employment, Moortown Ward Members, Leeds City Council Planning Department (including landscape & urban design), Allerton Grange School and their PFI provider, Leeds City Council Highways Department, Leeds City Council Asset Management Department, Staff at the existing school, local residents, parents and carers in the affected wards.

Portfolio Holder: The Executive Member for Learning, Skills & Employment

Decisions

Agenda items

Documents

  • Report to be provided with the agenda for the meeting