Decision Maker: Cabinet Member for Children's Services
Decision status: Recommendations Approved (subject to call-in)
Is Key decision?: No
Is subject to call in?: Yes
To ask the Cabinet Member to approve the statutory proposals published by the governing bodies of St Mary’s CEVC Infant School and St Peter’s CEVC Junior School on 6 November 2014.
I approve:
(i) The proposal to close St Mary’s Infant and St Peter’s Junior schools, Marlborough (including the SEN Resource Bases) and to open a new voluntary controlled primary school on the site of the St Mary’s, offering 440 places (including 20 SEN Resource Base places). This approval is conditional on the letting of a contract to provide the new primary school buildings.
This decision was published on 19 December2014 and will come into force on 31 December 2014.
Thelinked proposalspublished bythe localgoverning bodies have securedsignificant backingfrom thecommunity ofparents, aresupported bythe DfEand theDiocese ofSalisbury andwill helpto securethe futureof primaryeducation in the communityof Marlborough.
Theprincipal optionconsidered duringthe consultationprocess, was to leavethe schoolsas separateinfant andjunior schoolson theirexisting sites and intheir currentbuildings.
Other reasons / organisations consulted
Aperiod ofstatutory consultationin Septemberand October2014 preceded the publicationof thelinked statutoryproposals. Thepublic noticeperiod has been fourweeks.
Contact: Malcolm Dodds interim Head of School Buildings and Places Email: malcolm.dodds@wiltshire.gov.uk 01225 713966.
Publication date: 11/12/2014
Date of decision: 11/12/2014
Date comes into force if not called in: 31/12/2014
Call-in deadline date: 30/12/2014
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