Education
Relaxation of planning controls for schools
As part of the Government’s drive to
simplify and speed up the planning system, a review of
the Use Classes Order and
permitted development rights is underway by the Department for Communities and Local Government and the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills. The outcome of the review is due out later this year, but any proposed changes would be subject to formal consultation.
“Meanwhile” Uses One proposal under consideration
in the
review is removing the requirement to obtain planning permission for “meanwhile” uses. If implemented, this would allow new shops, businesses and community uses to open up in empty buildings temporarily while permanent accommodation is being sought and arranged. Relaxing the current restrictions to allow businesses to set up more easily and quickly would help revive town centres, benefi t the community and waste less space and resources.
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How will academies procurement work?
The move away from a centrally directed and
local authorities
controlled education at
the system, with helm, has been
swift. Under the Coalition the academies programme that was started
under Labour
has evolved and schools have been allowed to convert to academy status. Today there are
1529 academies open in England.
Then there’s the free school programme, which will result in the establishment of a signifi cant number of new schools.
What sponsored academies, converter
academies, free schools and the new wave of university technical colleges (all technically “academies”) have in common is that they are all independent of the local authority. Previously, most goods, services and works needed by these schools would have been procured by
their local authority, which
would have had signifi cant experience of the process and how to take advantage of economies of scale.
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