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School Admissions Co-ordinated Schemes and Arrangements 2026

Meeting: 17/10/2024 - Council (Item 364)

364 Annual Review of the School Place Planning Strategy 2022-27 PDF 2 MB

This annual summary report provides an update on the progress made during the lifetime of the 2022-27 School Place Planning Strategy. It identifies areas of demand and makes recommendations to ensure that appropriate levels of good quality school places are available through to 2027 and beyond.

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Minutes:

Background:

This report provided an update on the progress made against the School Place Planning Strategy 2022 - 2027, highlighting areas of demand for school places and made recommendations to ensure that sufficient good quality school places would be available through to 2027 and beyond. The report set out options to fund the proposals.

This annual review report and the recommendations in it were based upon the annual round of forecasting undertaken in April 2024, using the latest available data.

The report had previously been considered by the Cabinet on 1 October 2024, the decisions of which were set out at section 19 of the report.

The Portfolio Holder for Education, Councillor Coombs, supported by the Portfolio Holder for Children’s Services, Councillor Price, proposed the recommendations set out in the report.

Decisions:

a) The Council agreed the addition of £5.4m High Needs Provision Capital Allocation to the SEND capital programme and approved the addition of:

i) £600k to Rivermead at Stoke (9x589) to fund additional costs in the project as set out in paragraph 16.3 of the report.

ii) £200k to Danecourt to fund additional costs in the project as set out in paragraph 16.3 of the report.

iii) £4.6m to increase education provision for children with Education, Health and Care Plans (EHCPs).

b) The Council agreed the addition of £798k of s106 funding to the Hundred of Hoo Academy expansion 9x592, as set out in paragraph 23.9 of the report.

c) The Council agreed the addition of £21k to the capital programme for Pilgrim Primary School, as set out in paragraph 23.10 of the report.

d) The Council agreed the addition of £35,799.51 of s106 funding to Greenvale Primary School (9x566) as set out in paragraph 23.11 of the report.

Meeting: 01/10/2024 - Cabinet (Item 6)

6 Annual Review of the School Place Planning Strategy 2022-27 PDF 2 MB

Additional documents:

Minutes:

Background:

The report provided the Cabinet withan annual summary and update on the progress made during the lifetime of the 2022-27 School Place Planning Strategy. It identified areas of demand and made recommendations to ensure appropriate levels of good quality school places would be available through to 2027 and beyond.

Decision number:	Decision:
	The Cabinet noted the progress made against the School Organisation Plan and School Place Planning Strategy frameworks, which had ensured that the Council had met its duty and sufficient school places were currently available to meet demand.
112/2024	The Cabinet recommended Full Council approve the addition of £5.4m High Needs Provision Capital Allocation to the SEND capital programme and the addition of: · £600k to Rivermead at Stoke (9x589) to enable the completion of the project due to escalating costs and planning restrictions. Previous estimates indicated £2.9m for the project but following detailed design and planning conditions the costs have increased. · £200k to Danecourt to enable the completion of the project due to escalating costs. Previous estimates indicated £1.4m for the project but following detailed design and relevant surveys, costs have increased. · £4.6m to increase education provision for children with Education, Health and Care Plans (EHCPs)
113/2024	The Cabinet approved the reallocation of £250K from the Delce resourced provision project (9x605) to Pre-Beeches at the Rowans (9x604) to provide additional primary Social, Emotional, Mental Health (SEMH) capacity.
114/2024	The Cabinet approved the virement of £350k from the Inspire temporary classroom project (9x601) to Pre-Beeches at the Rowans (9x604), to provide additional funding for the project at The Rowans and the additional kitchen work.
115/2024	The Cabinet recommended Full Council approve the addition of £798k of agreed s106 contributions from planning applications: MC/21/3379 - Land South of Stoke Road; MC/21/2612 - The Hollies Sharnal Street High Halstow; MC/19/0287 Land at Town Road Cliffe Woods; and MC/16/4268 - Land North of Commissioners Road Strood, to the Hundred of Hoo Academy expansion project 9x592. Noting that should the Council not receive the full allocation of s106 funding expected, then alternative forms of funding would need to be found, such as other grants or contributions.
116/2024	The Cabinet recommended Full Council approve the addition of £21k of s106 funding from planning application MC/05/1031 - Alps, Borstal, to the capital programme for Pilgrim Primary School to replace the play equipment for the use of Pilgrim School children.
117/2024	The Cabinet recommended Full Council approve the addition of £35,799.51 of s106 funding from planning applications: MC/19/0866 – Former Redvers Centre; MC/18/3659 – Chatham Waterfront Globe Lane; and MC/20/0559 Former NHS Walk-in centre 547-553 Canterbury Street, to Greenvale Primary School (9x566) to fund additional furniture.

Reasons:

To ensure that the Council meets its statutory duty to ensure sufficient good quality school places are available.