Issue - meetings

Cabinet Member: Finance

Forward Plan Ref: 2025/080

Contact: Natalie Crawford, Capital Programme Manager

Natalie.crawford@oxfordshire.gov.uk

Report by Executive Director of Resources and Section 151 Officer

The Cabinet is RECOMMENDED to:

a.             approve the inclusion of Grove Airfield Primary School (Phase 2 of Grove Airfield Development) into the capital programme with an indicative budget of £1.600m

b.             approve £2.400m to enable the purchase of two new buildings to facilitate staff relocation

Recommendations approved.

Cabinet had before it a report which set out changes to the capital programme requiring Cabinet approval to be incorporated into the agreed programme and included in the next update to the Capital Programme in October 2025.  

Councillor Dan Levy, Cabinet Member for Finance, Property and Transformation, presented the report. The report sought approval for a new primary school for Grove Airfield with a budget of £1.6 million and £2.4 million for purchasing two new buildings to facilitate staff relocation from a costly lease in central Oxford. These items were is a response to rapid growth in the Grove area and local government reorganisation.

Councillor Levy moved and Councillor Gregory seconded the recommendations and they were approved.

RESOLVED to:

a)    approve the inclusion of Grove Airfield Primary School (Phase 2 of Grove Airfield Development) into the capital programme with an indicative budget of £1.600m

b)    approve £2.400m to enable the purchase of two new buildings to facilitate staff relocation