Support

Representation ID: 25593

Received: 07/03/2019

Respondent: Department for Education (DfE)

The DfE welcomes reference within the plan to support the development of appropriate social and community infrastructure, not least schools, in policy CS15, including references to ensuring infrastructure provision meets needs, timely delivery of infrastructure alongside development and requirements for developer contributions.

Object

Representation ID: 25595

Received: 07/03/2019

Respondent: Department for Education (DfE)

Key national policies should be explicitly referenced or signposted within the document. In particular:

Paragraph 94 of the NPPF.

The DfE supports the principle of Ipswich Borough Council safeguarding land for new schools. Where new schools are developed, land for any future expansion of new schools should be safeguarded.

The Council should also have regard to the Joint Policy Statement from the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government and the Secretary of State for Education on 'Planning for Schools Development' (2011).

Object

Representation ID: 25597

Received: 07/03/2019

Respondent: Department for Education (DfE)

A good example is an approach taken by the London Borough of Ealing in producing a Planning for Schools Development Plan Document (DPD, 2016). The DPD provides policy direction, establishes the Council's approach to providing primary and secondary school places and helps identify suitable sites. The DPD may provide useful guidance with respect to an evidence-based approach to planning or new schools in the emerging Ipswich Local Plan, securing site allocations for schools and providing example policies to aid delivery though development management policies.

Object

Representation ID: 25598

Received: 07/03/2019

Respondent: Department for Education (DfE)

Ensuring there is an adequate supply of sites for schools is essential and will ensure that Ipswich borough council can swiftly and flexibly respond to the existing and future need for school places to meet the needs of the borough over the plan period.

Object

Representation ID: 26003

Received: 13/03/2019

Respondent: Suffolk County Council

See appendix 5 for detailed comments. In summary it's estimated:
- Three new primary schools required at Ipswich Garden Suburb, and a secondary school.
- A new primary school on Carr Street (IP048a)
- The County needs to consider whether to expand existing schools or deliver a new primary school in the south-west.
- Land required to enable the expansion of Rose Hill Primary School (IP10a).

Envisaged that school place capacity could be provided to serve growth but would need to be reassessed based on actual quantum of growth.

The County working to consider longer term needs for post-16 education.