Agenda item

Outline Business Case for Brompton Academy

Minutes:

This report presented the Outline Business Case (OBC) for Brompton Academy for Cabinet approval and onward submission to Partnerships for Schools (PfS) to secure funding. The outline business case document outlined the options appraisal, cost estimates, affordability assessment and procurement strategy for Brompton Academy. An executive summary of the OBC was set out in Appendix A to the report. The full Outline Business Case, including appendices and associated documents, had been sent separately to Members as an exempt document.

 

The report also provided details of a number of ancillary issues. These included a number of third party issues on the Brompton site, proposals for the relocation of tenants to the former Temple school site, and proposals for the relocation of Bradfields post-16 further education centre for pupils with special educational needs.

 

Decision number:

Decision:

194/2010

The Cabinet approved the Outline Business Case for Brompton Academy and gives delegated authority to the Director of Children and Adults in consultation with the Portfolio Holder for Children’s Services, Chief Finance Officer and Monitoring Officer to make minor changes to the OBC after it has been subjected to the PfS Peer Review for ratification on behalf of the Council.

195/2010

The Cabinet Authorised the Director of Children and Adults, in consultation with the Portfolio Holder for Children’s Services, to utilise part of the vacated Temple school buildings to allow the relocation of tenants of Youth House, including Key Training outlined in section 5.1 and to seek to obtain vacant possession of Youth House.

196/2010

The Cabinet authorised the Assistant Director of Housing and Corporate Services in consultation with the Portfolio Holder for Finance to grant leases for existing occupiers of Youth House to occupy parts of the Temple School Block 3 and ancillary buildings.

197/2010

The Cabinet authorised the Assistant Director of Housing and Corporate Services in consultation with the Portfolio Holder for Finance to enter into negotiations with Medway NHS for a lease of part of the Temple School Block 3 and ancillary buildings and to grant such lease subject to suitable terms being agreed.

198/2010

The Cabinet authorised the Assistant Director of Housing and Corporate services in consultation with the Portfolio Holder for Finance, to enter in to an agreement with the MoD to vary the restrictive covenant outlined in section 5.4 of the report.

199/2010

The Cabinet authorised the Assistant Director of Housing and Corporate services, in consultation with the Portfolio Holder for Frontline Services, to undertake the process to the divert the footpath described in section 5.5 of the report, including the consideration of any representations.

200/2010

The Cabinet recommended that Full Council agrees and declares that part of the Temple school site shown edged black on site plan Appendix D surplus and be available for disposal.

201/2010

The Cabinet recommended to Full Council that a scheme be included in the capital programme, funded from the proceeds of the sale of the surplus Temple site, to fund the variation of the restrictive covenant and to facilitate the moves of the current occupants of Youth House to their new locations. In the first instance this be a sum of £350,000 for the adaptations to the Temple buildings with a further report on the proposal for relocating the Bradfields post-16 unit.

 

Reasons:

 

The submission of a completed Outline Business Case is required by PfS, in order to secure funding for the scheme.

 

The covenant will need to be varied before the development can go ahead.

 

In order to include the Youth House/Wing in the development site, there will be consequential moves needed.

 

After consultation on all options for the location of the new buildings, the Youth House site provides the best solution as a site for the development, which means that vacant possession of this part of the site will be required in time for construction works to commence.

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