Object

Representation ID: 5342

Received: 19/12/2022

Respondent: St Philips

Agent: Pegasus Group

Legally compliant? Not specified

Sound? No

Duty to co-operate? Not specified

There is broad support for the policy’s objective for the improvement or construction of schools to meet the demand generated by children in new development. However, as currently written, the policy makes a blanket assumption that new education infrastructure will be required from all new development.
The Policy text requires further clarification as any such provision to be delivered by a S106 agreement, must have regard to the tests of CIL Regulation 122. The policy should make this explicit. In this regard, the policy should also recognise new infrastructure will be required
from new development, only where it can be demonstrated that existing capacity to accommodate growth does not currently exist.
The policy is considered unsound, as it is neither justified nor consistent with national policy for the reasons set out above.