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New Primary School for Valley Park - Education Specification and Approval to Start LA Presumption Process
Meeting: 10/07/2024 - Delegated Decisions by Cabinet Member for Children, Education & Young People’s Services (Item 11)
PDF 239 KBCabinet Member: Children, Education and Young People’s Services
Forward Plan Ref: 2024/159
Contact: Barbara Chillman, Pupil Place Planning Manager (Barbara.Chillman@oxfordshire.gov.uk)
Report by Corporate Director for Childrens Services (CMDCEYPS7).
The Cabinet Member is RECOMMENDED to:
a) Approve the specification for the new primary school to serve the Valley Park development to the west of Didcot, and for a competitive process to be launched to identify an academy sponsor to run the school.
Additional documents:
Minutes:
The Chair introduced the item to the meeting.
Officers noted that this would be to build a new primary school to serve the housing development to the west of Didcot, known as Valley Park.
Officers noted that the building work would begin before the academy sponsor was confirmed, but stated it was common with the relative timescales.
The Chair asked officers to consider ground-sourced heating for open spaces, such as playgrounds or carparks, at that stage as it would be cost-effective and environmentally beneficial.
The Chair thanked officers and agreed to the recommendation in the report.
RESOLVED to:
a) Approve the specification for the new primary school to serve the Valley Park development to the west of Didcot, and for a competitive process to be launched to identify an academy sponsor to run the school.