Issue details

Under section 14 of the Education Act 1996 Local Authorities have a statutory duty to ensure that there are sufficient schools for primary and secondary education in their areas. In order to achieve this the Council's priority is to ensure there is sufficient provision of school places in the right areas to meet needs. These places can be delivered within community, academy, free school and voluntary aided schools.

S106 contributions are received by the Council from Developers for housing development in an area. The S106 contributions that are the subject of this Officer Delegated Decision are received by the Council to expand or enhance primary school provision in any existing primary school serving the area of the development or providing new primary school places in the area of the development.

Allocating S106 contributions amounting to £89,434.86 received by the Council to Clutton Primary School will enable the school to carry out projects to expand and enhance their accommodation and increase their capacity from 147 to 175 allowing a permanent Planned Admission Number (PAN) of 25 across all year groups.

The project will enable local children to attend their nearest village school.