Issue - meetings

That:

1)        support for the development and provision of a new Special Education Needs school at Winnersh Farm be supported;

2)        the lease of the site at Winnersh Farm to the Department for Education for use as a Special Education Needs school on their model Heads of Terms be approved and the Director of Resources and Assets be delegated powers, in conjunction with the Lead Member for Business and Economic Development, to complete the lease.

The Executive considered a report relating to a proposal for the provision of a new Special Education Needs School within the Borough and setting out proposed terms of the lease of the site for 125 years to the Department for Education.

The Executive Member for Children’s Services introduced the report and advised that the school, which would be a free school, would have 150 pupils; 75 pupils from Wokingham Borough Council area and 75 from Reading Borough Council area.  The Department for Education would fund the building of the school which would be run by the Maiden Erlegh Trust. 

In response to a query by Councillor Kaiser, Councillor Clark confirmed that the proposed site in Winnersh was the site favoured by the Department for Education.

RESOLVED that:

1)        support for the development and provision of a new Special Education Needs school at Winnersh Farm be supported;

2)        the lease of the site at Winnersh Farm to the Department for Education for use as a Special Education Needs school on their model Heads of Terms be approved and the Director of Resources and Assets be delegated powers, in conjunction with the Lead Member for Business and Economic Development, to complete the lease.