Agenda item

School Organisation Planning: The provision of additional English-medium primary school places at Radyr Primary School.

Decision:

This decision has been certified by the Monitoring Officer as urgent because any delay likely to be caused by the call-in process could seriously prejudice the Council and is in the public interest under section 13 of the Scrutiny Procedure Rules as urgent and the call-in procedure does not apply to it. The Chair of the Children & Young People’s Scrutiny Committee has been consulted on this matter and has agreed that this report should be certified as urgent.

 

RESOLVED: that 

1.            the proposals as set out in paragraph 1 of the report be approved without modification

 

2.            officers be authorised to take the appropriate actions to implement the proposals as set out in paragraph 1.

 

3.            officers be authorised to publish a summary of the statutory objections and the Authority’s response to those objections (referred to as the “Objection Report”) within 7 days of the determination of the proposal;

 

4.            officers be authorised to publish the decision within 7 days of determination of the proposal.

 

5.            the approval of any necessary contracts be delegated to the Director of Education and Lifelong Learning in consultation with the Corporate Director Resources & Section 151 Officer, Director of Legal Services and the Cabinet Members for Corporate Services & Performance and Education, Employment & Skills.

 

 

Minutes:

This decision has been certified by the Monitoring Officer as urgent because any delay likely to be caused by the call-in process could seriously prejudice the Council and is in the public interest under section 13 of the Scrutiny Procedure Rules as urgent and the call-in procedure does not apply to it. The Chair of the Children & Young People’s Scrutiny Committee has been consulted on this matter and has agreed that this report should be certified as urgent.

 

The Cabinet considered a report outlining the response to the statutory notice to increase the capacity of Radyr Primary School from 376 places to 420 places from September 2017. Cabinet was advised that one objection had been received and the report contained a robust response to this objection.

 

RESOLVED: that 

1.            the proposals as set out in paragraph 1 of the report be approved without modification

 

2.            officers be authorised to take the appropriate actions to implement the proposals as set out in paragraph 1.

 

3.            officers be authorised to publish a summary of the statutory objections and the Authority’s response to those objections (referred to as the “Objection Report”) within 7 days of the determination of the proposal;

 

4.            officers be authorised to publish the decision within 7 days of determination of the proposal.

 

5.            the approval of any necessary contracts be delegated to the Director of Education and Lifelong Learning in consultation with the Corporate Director Resources & Section 151 Officer, Director of Legal Services and the Cabinet Members for Corporate Services & Performance and Education, Employment & Skills.

 

 

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