Issue - meetings
Wembley School Site
Meeting: 19/09/2012 - Executive (Item 14)
14 Wembley School Site PDF 2 MB
The council has secured a possible site for a new primary school in the Wembley Stadium area as a consequence of a S106 planning obligation. The site is currently in industrial use but could be used in the medium term for a primary school. The owners of the site have offered either the site to be taken now or a cash sum to put towards new school provision. The council have produced an outline agreement with Quintain Estates for the school land and recommend its acquisition by the council on the terms set out in the report.
Additional documents:
- rmp-wembley-school-app-PINK V5 , View reasons restricted (14/2)
Decision:
(i) that approval be given to the acquisition of the Fulton Road site as a future school site subject to any necessary environmental investigation;
(ii) that officers prepare legal documents for the transfer of the land based on the principles set out in paragraph 3.8 of the report from the Director of Regeneration and Major Projects
(iii) that the precise terms of that agreement be delegated to the Director of Regeneration Major Projects/ Assistant Director, Property and Asset Management.
Minutes:
Councillor Crane (Lead Member, Regeneration and Major Projects) advised that the council had secured a possible site for a new primary school in the Wembley Stadium area as a consequence of a S106 planning obligation. The site was currently in industrial use but could be used in the medium term for a primary school. The owners of the site have offered either the site to be taken now or a cash sum to put towards new school provision. The report from the Director of Regeneration and Major Projects outlined the two options before the council to either receive two payments in 2013/14 and 2014/15 to be put towards education provision in the Wembley area or Option 2, to have year from signature of signing the S106 to enter into an option to ‘purchase’ the site and/or within three months. Option 1 would be the default position should Option 2 not be exercised. The land would effectively be transferred to the council at nil value ie no cost to the council. Councillor Crane indicated that Option 2 was being recommended for approval as there were limited sites available and he drew members’ attention to the associated risks set out in the report. An outline agreement had been produced with Quintain Estates for the school land and Councillor Crane recommended its acquisition by the council on the terms set out in the report.
The Executive also had before them an appendix to the report which was not for publication as it contained the following category of exempt information as specified in Schedule 12 of the Local Government (Access to Information Act) 1972:
Information relating to the financial or business affairs of any particular person (including the authority holding that information).
RESOLVED:-
(i) that approval be given to the acquisition of the Fulton Road site as a future school site subject to any necessary environmental investigation;
(ii) that officers prepare legal documents for the transfer of the land based on the principles set out in paragraph 3.8 of the report from the Director of Regeneration and Major Projects;
(iii) that the precise terms of that agreement be delegated to the Director of Regeneration Major Projects/Assistant Director, Property and Asset Management.