The school places planning process Overview and Scrutiny Committee - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Monday 20 July 2015 The school places planning process Overview and Scrutiny Committee 10 th September 2015 The presentation will introduce Report to Cabinet for 1 st October with background information and explanation of how the Council
Monday 20 July 2015
1.To note the approach to the planning of school place expansion established by previous Cabinet decisions, to facilitate academy and Free Schools to provide new school places. 2.To note the method of sequential assessment to test and select preferable sites for new schools, and that a further update is at procurement stage, to be completed by December 2015. 3.To note that, having applied the sequential assessment to the site search process, should the Council exhaust all other options, proposals for new schools on suitable greenfield sites including Metropolitan Open Land (MOL) should only be considered as a last resort. 4.To note that the responsibility for making planning applications for the creation of a new Free School or Academy school rests entirely with that school’s governing trust and the Education Funding Agency (EFA). The Council will offer support, cooperation and guidance from the School Expansion team in partnership with the Education and Planning teams. 5. To note that the determination of all planning applications necessary for new and expanded schools rests with the Planning Committee unless otherwise directed or determined by the Mayor of London or Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government
The NPPF (para 72) recognises the importance of education provision and states: “The Government attaches great importance to ensuring that a sufficient choice of school places is available to meet the needs of existing and new communities. Local planning authorities should take a proactive, positive and collaborative approach to meeting this requirement, and to development that will widen choice in
schools; and
planning issues before applications are submitted.”
For adoption by Council 15th Sept.
fully up-to-date. Addresses NPPF, latest London Plan (2015) and all latest legislation, guidance & regulations (April 2015).
Local Plan - strategy, development management policies, site allocations and all aspects of infrastructure planning to meet growth needs.
benefits of schools too
Land is:
“to protect and enhance the openness, quality and permanence”
area and particularly to protect against “inappropriate development” “except in very special circumstances”.
same consideration as the NPPF provides to Green Belt
with a presumption against “inappropriate” development - but MOL is not sacrosanct from any development
development is permitted
most appropriate ‘sustainable’ sites for school expansion
new schools – range of locations, suitability for new schools or expansions, size and type. Identifies levels deliverability / availability
for sites
early 2014. Further update commissioned (finalise December 2015).
listed at para 4.32
their starting point – demonstrate how THE BOROUGH’S specific educational need and the SCHOOL can best be met with available sites, ranked in sequential preference, at that point in time
– projections of place need are complex – working with the national free school/academy presumption – if no allocated site fits the specific educational need or school requirements
General planning principles apply (section 38.6)
educational and town
Group, the EFA and individual new school trust - to guide and influence EFA funding allocations and planning proposals
balance of competing planning objectives
4.40-43)
– HLP Policies CI2, IMP2, GB3 – London Plan Policy 3.18,
– HLP GB1-2-3 – London Plan Policy 7.17
72 (above) is an important material consideration
play space must be referred to Mayor of London
– Stage 1 - Mayor comments on planning application – Stage 2 - potential ‘call-in’ after Planning Committee resolution to approve
Secretary of State for potential ‘call-in’ after Planning Committee resolution to approve
growth, particularly acute in this borough
uncertainties outside of our control
2017
2019
to ensure capacity of high quality education provision offered, but operating in the constraints of the free schools / academies system of funding and provision
but complexities of offering parent choice of school type
provision)
Group where common objectives and principles
where and when the Council needs them – Screening school providers with A&FSRG – Influencing the EFA funding cycle processes and offers to new schools to operate in a general location – Influencing site selection decisions of EFA & school trust for the new school
and MOL are important. New ‘holistic’ Local Plan addressing all issues including schools
available processes. Local Plan and processes exhaust all
sites
spots’
positive Local Plan and flexibility & contingency too
– addressing the ‘very special circumstances’ demonstrated
case by case basis
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In the two Primary planning areas of greatest need ie Brentford and Central Hounslow the LA has been expanding existing schools
Planning Area School (year of increase) Year of Expansion Brentford Lionel Smallberry Green St Paul’s C/E Marlborough 2014 2010 2015 Temp 2013 Central Hounslow Hounslow Town Isleworth Town Beavers The Blue Hounslow Heaths Wellington St Mary’s RC, Isleworth Chatsworth (2011) 2010 and 2016 2010 and 2014 2013 and2015 2014 2014 and 2015 2017 2015 2011