Support

Representation ID: 19671

Received: 12/03/2018

Respondent: ESFA

The Local Plan will need to be 'positively prepared' to meet the objectively assessed development needs and infrastructure requirements. In this context, the ESFA welcomes the document's explicit recognition of the importance of "a comprehensive approach to infrastructure planning" as outlined in para 76-96 of the consultation document. In planning positively for school provision, the ESFA commends the approach taken by LB Ealing in their Planning for Schools Development Plan Document. We are not suggesting the Council produces a separate DPD, but we do believe that the systematic approach they have taken is informative for local plans.

Comment

Representation ID: 19672

Received: 12/03/2018

Respondent: ESFA

The next version of the Local Plan should seek to be more definitive in identifying which sites will need to deliver new schools to support growth, based on the latest evidence of identified need and demand. The site allocations or associated safeguarding policies should clarify requirements for the delivery of new schools, including when they should be delivered to support housing growth, the minimum site area required, any preferred site characteristics, and any requirements for safeguarding additional land for future expansion of schools where need and demand indicates.

Comment

Representation ID: 19673

Received: 12/03/2018

Respondent: ESFA

The next version of the Local Plan should seek to be more definitive in identifying which sites will need to deliver new schools to support growth, based on the latest evidence of identified need and demand. The site allocations or associated safeguarding policies should clarify requirements for the delivery of new schools, including when they should be delivered to support housing growth, the minimum site area required, any preferred site characteristics, and any requirements for safeguarding additional land for future expansion of schools where need and demand indicates.

Comment

Representation ID: 19674

Received: 12/03/2018

Respondent: ESFA

The next version of the Local Plan should seek to be more definitive in identifying which sites will need to deliver new schools to support growth, based on the latest evidence of identified need and demand. The site allocations or associated safeguarding policies should clarify requirements for the delivery of new schools, including when they should be delivered to support housing growth, the minimum site area required, any preferred site characteristics, and any requirements for safeguarding additional land for future expansion of schools where need and demand indicates.

Comment

Representation ID: 19675

Received: 12/03/2018

Respondent: ESFA

The next version of the Local Plan should seek to be more definitive in identifying which sites will need to deliver new schools to support growth, based on the latest evidence of identified need and demand. The site allocations or associated safeguarding policies should clarify requirements for the delivery of new schools, including when they should be delivered to support housing growth, the minimum site area required, any preferred site characteristics, and any requirements for safeguarding additional land for future expansion of schools where need and demand indicates.

Comment

Representation ID: 19676

Received: 12/03/2018

Respondent: ESFA

Recommend the council consider highlighting in the next version of the local plan that specific requirements for developer contributions to enlargements to existing schools and the provision of new schools for any particular site will be confirmed at application stage to ensure the latest data on identified need informs delivery and requirements to deliver schools on some sites could change in future if it were demonstrated and agreed that the site had become surplus to requirements, and is therefore no longer required for school use.

Comment

Representation ID: 19677

Received: 12/03/2018

Respondent: ESFA

The next version of the plan should be supported by a more complete and up to date education evidence base, that takes into account need arising from the allocated housing sites as well as need arising from developments close to the borough boundary in adjacent authorities such as Basildon. This will ensure the approach to education infrastructure is 'justified' based on proportionate evidence.