Expansion blog 5

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Moor Hall Primary School Expansion

Following the School’s Adjudicator’s conditional ruling to approve the expansion of Moor Hall School providing planning approval is granted by 21^st July 2017, BCC has asked for a modification on the basis that it is difficult for us to implement the proposal.  The modification we seek is that a later date of 1^st September 2017 is specified to achieve planning.  In preparation, BCC will be submitting the capital building scheme for planning on 4^th July 2017.  The Planning Application relates to the permanent build and further information about the proposal for 2017 will be issued once we have received a response from Schools' Adjudicator.

Following the pre-planning community consultation on 2^nd February 2017 there were a number of queries raised:

• Traffic measures – The school Travel Plan and Traffic Survey have been shared publicly.  As part of the scheme we will be looking to implement a number of traffic improvement measures.  These will be part of the planning requirement.
• Moorhens provision – The Moorhens before and after school provision will be maintained and provision increased to accommodate the increase in the number of children.
• Internal furniture requirements – BCC will provide financial support to the school to equip the new classrooms.
• Current buildings – Some limited remodelling of existing areas are being considered as part of the development.
• Hall space & additional space for increase in staff numbers – Following the public consultation and after further review the scheme now includes for the Hall to be extended and for additional space within the new building for the increase in staff numbers.

BCC Education Infrastructure Team will provide further updates when we know the outcome of our request to the Schools’ Adjudicator. In addition, once the scheme has been given Planning Approval we will be setting up a Stakeholder Group for the duration of the project to ensure there is an on-going opportunity to communicate with interested parties.