1                To note the contents of this report;

2                To agree that statutory proposals should be published for the enlargement of Bonner Primary School to admit 120 pupils in each year from September 2013.

3                To authorise the Acting Corporate Director Children Schools and Families, after consulting with the Mayor, Cabinet Member for Children’s Services and the Assistant Chief Executive (Legal Services), to negotiate and agree such terms (including, in either case, the payment of appropriate financial compensation), as will enable the proposed extension to Bonner Primary School either to share the PDC with the University until 2018, or for the University to vacate those parts of the PDC which it occupies and move into alternative premises.

4                To authorise the Acting Corporate Director Children Schools and Families, after consulting with the Mayor, Cabinet Member for Children’s Services and  the Assistant Chief Executive (Legal Services) to negotiate and agree with the University such terms for the University’s continued occupation of the PDC as will enable the University to continue to enjoy its current use of the PDC in a manner which is consonant with the University’s reasonable expectations including (without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing), teaching both undergraduate and post-graduate students in an environment not inimical to academic study.

5                To authorise the Acting Corporate Director Children Schools and Families after consulting with the Mayor, Cabinet Member for Children’s Services and the Assistant Chief Executive (Legal Services) to take such steps as are necessary in the planning and design process to ensure that the Council is enabled fully to comply with its legal obligations relating to the safeguarding of children.

Action by:

INTERIM CORPORATE DIRECTOR CHILDREN, SCHOOLS AND FAMILIES (I. CATTERMOLE)

(Head of Building Development (P. Watson)

Councillor Oliur Rahman, Cabinet Member for Children’s Services, introduced the report. He highlighted the growing demand for school places in the borough and that Bonner Primary School was an outstanding school. He stated that recommendations 3, 4 and 5 should be altered to include the Cabinet Member for Children’s Services in the consultation processes.

Responding to questions officers stated that adequate safeguards were in place in light of the building having shared uses.

The Mayor noted the tabled Overview and Scrutiny tabled question and answer, the concerns expressed in relation to the shared use of the site and the impact on the University of Cumbria’s services and he agreed the recommendations subject to the amendments proposed.

RESOLVED

1                To note the contents of this report;

2                To agree that statutory proposals should be published for the enlargement of Bonner Primary School to admit 120 pupils in each year from September 2013.

3             To authorise the Acting Corporate Director Children Schools and Families, after consulting with the Mayor, Cabinet Member for Children’s Services and the Assistant Chief Executive (Legal Services), to negotiate and agree such terms (including, in either case, the payment of appropriate financial compensation), as will enable the proposed extension to Bonner Primary School either to share the PDC with the University until 2018, or for the University to vacate those parts of the PDC which it occupies and move into alternative premises.

4                To authorise the Acting Corporate Director Children Schools and Families, after consulting with the Mayor, Cabinet Member for Children’s Services and  the Assistant Chief Executive (Legal Services) to negotiate and agree with the University such terms for the University’s continued occupation of the PDC as will enable the University to continue to enjoy its current use of the PDC in a manner which is consonant with the University’s reasonable expectations including (without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing), teaching both undergraduate and post-graduate students in an environment not inimical to academic study.

5                To authorise the Acting Corporate Director Children Schools and Families after consulting with the Mayor, Cabinet Member for Children’s Services and the Assistant Chief Executive (Legal Services) to take such steps as are necessary in the planning and design process to ensure that the Council is enabled fully to comply with its legal obligations relating to the safeguarding of children.