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Apologies Minutes: Apologies were received
from County Councillors Harford, Hudson and Richards
and City Councillor Sargeant. |
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Declarations of Interest Minutes:
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Minutes: As the meeting was not quorate the minutes would be tabled at the next meeting for approval. |
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Wing Primary School, Land North of Newmarket Road Minutes: The Committee received a
presentation from Prue Rayner Primary Executive Head Teacher with Anglia
Learning and Kevin Myers Lead Designer RHP Architects on the Wing Primary
School, Land North of Newmarket Road. The presentation covered: ·
Access to the main hall
from the market square to enable the facility to be used by community groups. ·
Classrooms were at the
rear of the development so that they did not face the public. ·
There were different
zones for early years and key stages 1 and 2. ·
Wanted to encourage
controlled access to woodland for outside play, growing and habitat area. ·
Sustainability and
guidelines for modern buildings. Members raised comments/questions as summarised below. Answers were
supplied, but as this was a pre-application presentation, none of the answers
were to be regarded as binding and so are not included in the minutes. ·
Asked where the catchment area was and how pupil
numbers would be managed. ·
Queried how parents would drop off and collect
children from school. ·
Queried how lorries would
access the car park for deliveries. ·
Queried what access community groups would have to
the car park outside school hours. ·
Asked if the outdoor play area would be floodlit
and queried the impact this would have on neighbouring houses. ·
Asked how the school would be built out. ·
Queried the impact of the school opening on
neighbouring schools. ·
Queried if the perimeter of the school would have
security fencing. ·
Queried if the design of the school provided
facilities for children with special educational needs. ·
Queried if there were plans to increase cycle or
scooter parking at the school. ·
Asked about heating and cooling system within the
school. ·
Asked how Anglian Learning would finance the
initial build and provide for long term maintenance of the school. ·
Asked how the nursery would be accessed. ·
Queried disabled parking provision and location to
the entrances to the school. ·
Queried size of form groups. ·
Queried the decision to be a specialist STEM (Science
technology, engineering and mathematics) school. ·
Queried if qualified teaching staff would be
employed. |