Decision details

This report will identify potential schools’ projects, for Member approval, to be funded from the 2021/22 to 2025/26 Achieve and Aspire Strategic Priorities and Basic Need funding sections of the Council’s Capital Plan.

1)    That approval be given for the secondary school places capital allocation of £2.7M for the implementation of building work at Manor Croft Academy to enable the permanent provision of 150 additional secondary school places and an interim modular build solution for September 2022.

2)    That approval be given for the secondary school places capital allocation of £600K for the building work at Thornhill Community Academy to support an agreed bulge of pupils.

3)    That the basic need capital investment of £104K agreed under delegated authority from Cabinet on 13 April 2021 for Westborough High School to support additional pupils as part of agreed bulges of pupils be noted.

4)    That the basic need capital investment of £250K agreed under delegated authority from Cabinet on 13 April 2021 for North Huddersfield Trust School for building works required to support agreed bulges of pupils be noted.

5)    That approval be given for the basic need allocation of £215K for reinstatement and remodelling works at Reinwood Infants and Reinwood Juniors, to be funded from the 2021/22 £604K Basic Need funding programme.

6)    That approval be given for the capital allocation of £650K from the Capital Maintenance grant for a permanent new build replacement of a failed temporary classroom at Headlands CE (VC) J I & N School.

7)    That authority be delegated to the Service Director for Development and the Service Director for Learning and Early Support to increase or decrease the budget allocations to the schemes to facilitate the delivery of the tendered schemes providing that the total resources allocated to the programme areas is not exceeded.

8)    That authority be delegated to the Service Director for Development and the Service Director for Learning and Early Support to identify, develop, and implement capital projects using the £500K allocation in Financial Year 2022/23, with approved schemes being retrospectively reported to Cabinet.