Jealott's Hill Primary & Secondary Education Needs Analysis
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Jealott's Hill Primary & Secondary Education Needs Analysis v1-0 March 2018 Report by Oliver Nicholson EPDS Consultants Conifers House Blounts Court Road Peppard Common Henley-on-Thames RG9 5HB 0118 978 0091 www.epds-consultants.co.uk 1. Contents 1. Contents 2 2. Glossary & Definitions 3 3. List of Appendices 5 4. Executive Summary 6 5. Introduction 7 6. Current Local Primary & Secondary Education Provision 8 7. Local Primary & Secondary Education Forecasts 15 8. Assessment of Need for School Places 19 9. Potential Provision of New School Places 24 10. Summary & Conclusion 27 EPDS Consultants > 0118 978 0091 > www.epds-consultants.co.uk page 2 2. Glossary & Definitions A Academies – Publicly funded independent schools established under Section 482 of the Education Act 1996. B Bracknell Forest Local Plan to 2034 (‘BFLP’) C Capital expenditure – Spending on building projects and large items of equipment. Catchment area – A defined geographical area from which a school takes its pupils. Cohort – A single year group of pupils. Compact sites - Existing Primary School sites investigated by the Borough to establish whether more capacity can be added by using multi-storey buildings and all-weather pitches. D Department for Education (‘DfE’) formerly Children, Schools and Families (‘DCSF’), and the Department for Education and Skills (‘DfES’) – The central government department with responsibility for education. F Form of Entry (‘FE’) – When referring to primary schools, a Form of Entry is 30 pupils per year group that can be admitted to the school. A 1FE primary school therefore can accept up to 30 pupils per year group, across the 7 year groups of primary education, for a capacity of 210 pupils. Free School – A new state-funded school which is to be set up by (for example) a charity, business, community, group of teachers or parents, and which has the same legal structure as an academy. K Key stages – The four stages of pupils’ progress in acquiring knowledge and skills as set out in the national curriculum. Pupils are tested at the end of each stage: Key Stage 1, where the majority of pupils are aged 5 to 7; Key Stage 2, where the majority of pupils are aged 7 to 11; Key Stage 3, where the majority of children are aged 11 to 14; and Key Stage 4, where the majority of pupils are aged 14 to 16. There are statutory assessment arrangements at the end of Key Stages 1, 2, and 3. EPDS Consultants > 0118 978 0091 > www.epds-consultants.co.uk page 3 N Net Capacity – This is the maximum number of pupils in the school that the admitting authority believes can be accommodated without causing problems for the school. Net capacity does not apply to Academies although often the net capacity is used to determine the planned capacity of the school included in the Funding Agreement between the Academy and the Education Funding Agency. Numbers on Roll (‘NOR’) (also referred to as Pupils on Roll) – Pupils registered at a school. P Published Admission Number (‘PAN’) – The fixed number of children which a school must admit if sufficient applications are received, as published by the admission authority for the school. The PAN may be less than the indicated admission number, but the admission authority would need to publish a notice to enable parents to object to the Schools Adjudicator. R Reception classes – Defined by Section 142 of the School Standards and Framework Act 1988. An entry class to primary schools for children who have their fifth birthday during the school year and for children who are younger or older than five with whom it is appropriate to educate them. S Schools Capacity Survey (‘SCAP’) - An annual return to the DfE submitted by all local education authorities detailing the capacities of schools and the forecast school rolls. V Voluntary aided school – A school set up and owned by a voluntary body, usually a church body, largely financed by a Local Authority (‘LA’). The governing body employs the staff and controls pupil admissions and religious education. The school’s land and buildings (apart from playing fields, which are normally vested in the LA) will normally be owned by a charitable foundation. Voluntary controlled school – A school set up by a voluntary body, often a church body (generally Church of England). These schools are totally funded by an LA, which employs the staff. Normally the school’s land and buildings (apart from the playing fields, which are normally vested in the LA) will be owned by a charitable foundation. EPDS Consultants > 0118 978 0091 > www.epds-consultants.co.uk page 4 3. Appendices . APPENDIX EPDS01 - DfE Home_to_School_Travel_and_Transport_Guidance; . APPENDIX EPDS02 - school-places-plan-2018-to-2023; . APPENDIX EPDS03 - 26386 RG-M-AI06D Vision Rationale; . APPENDIX EPDS04 - determined-secondary-designated-areas-2017-to-2018; . APPENDIX EPDS05 - sal105-infrastructure-delivery-plan-post-submission-sadpd (extracts); . APPENDIX EPDS06 - LP.Ev.4e Infrastructure Delivery Plan (extracts); . APPENDIX EPDS07 - planning-obligations-supplementary-planning-document (extracts); . APPENDIX EPDS08 - 26386 - A3 - Jealotts Hill Housing Mix – DRAFT; . APPENDIX EPDS09 - Draft Bracknell Forest Local Plan (extracts); . APPENDIX EPDS10 - 1. Binfield Policies Map (extract); . APPENDIX EPDS11 - 2. Warfield and Winkfield North Policies Map (extract); . APPENDIX EPDS12 - 26386 RG-M-AI12H Illustrative Masterplan LOW RES-01; . APPENDIX EPDS13 - DfE BB103 Area Guidelines for Mainstream Schools; . APPENDIX EPDS14 - 26386 - RG-M-14J - Land Use Plan-Without Table (1_5000@A1). EPDS Consultants > 0118 978 0091 > www.epds-consultants.co.uk page 5 4. Executive Summary 4.1. The report assesses the likely need for primary and secondary school places in the area of Bracknell relevant to the proposed development at Jealott’s Hill, including the impact of housing allocated in the Regulation 19 Borough Local Plan. 4.2. This report acknowledges that, alongside the expansion of existing schools and creation of new schools in other locations, additional primary and secondary school provision is likely to be required. 4.3. Our findings indicate that the planned amount of new primary and secondary school place provision at the proposed development at Jealott’s Hill would not only mitigate its own impact on school places but would also provide significant flexibility regarding both primary and secondary education places for the relevant local area. EPDS Consultants > 0118 978 0091 > www.epds-consultants.co.uk page 6 5. Introduction 5.1. Report Purpose & Scope 5.1.1. The development of Jealott’s Hill is being promoted by Barton Willmore on behalf of the landowner Syngenta. EPDS Consultants Limited has been instructed by Barton Willmore to consider the technical basis of providing educational facilities on the site and if such provision can alleviate any potential future pressure for primary and secondary school places in the wider area. 5.1.2. Barton Willmore considers that the Jealott’s Hill site is capable of accommodating a development of up to 4,000 dwellings (including up to 3 new primary schools and a new secondary school). 5.1.3. This report accompanies Barton Willmore’s response to the Bracknell Forest Council’s Reg 18 consultation on its first version of the Draft Plan which covers the period until 2034. 5.1.4. The analysis within this report is based on publicly available information sources as well as Freedom of Information requests to the Council. Research for this report was completed in February and March 2018. 5.2. About EPDS Consultants 5.2.1. EPDS Consultants are a leading UK-wide consultancy offering planning advice on local education and other infrastructure impacts. Our expertise includes housing development impact assessments on local schools, public open space and healthcare. 5.2.2. In addition, our expertise also covers school buildings and school site area analyses and recommendations. We conduct analyses of education authorities’ school place planning methodologies and produce independent school forecasting data for a local area to support the development of strategic housing sites. We also advise on the statutory procedures and processes for establishing new schools for strategic urban extensions. EPDS Consultants > 0118 978 0091 > www.epds-consultants.co.uk page 7 6. Current Local Primary & Secondary Education Provision 6.1. Background to Local Education Provision 6.1.1. Bracknell Forest Council (‘BFC’) is one of the unitary authorities formed in 1998 when Berkshire was broken up into six unitary authorities. As a unitary authority BFC has responsibility for both education and planning matters. 6.1.2. The Education Act 1996 provides in section 14(1): “A local education authority shall secure that sufficient schools for providing – (a) primary education and (b) secondary education ... are available for their area”. 6.1.3. The Education Act simply states that the education authority must provide school education appropriate to the requirements of pupils for their area. In the case of HCC that is the area defined as the borough of Bracknell Forest. 6.1.4. This duty applies in relation to all the children in the local education authority area, whether they have lived there all their lives or have just moved into a new development. 6.1.5. The residential component of the proposed development will include family housing. Family housing often includes school age children who will seek to enrol in local schools. Those schools may or may not be sufficient to accommodate these children without the need for additional capacity to be provided. 6.1.6. All schools have a Published Admissions Number (‘PAN’) which indicates the number of pupils the school can take in the first year of admissions (for primary schools this is Year R), and therefore subsequently in all year groups as they progress through the school. 6.1.7. School capacity is often measured in terms of forms of entry (‘FE’).