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Derbyniwyd: 26/02/2025

Ymatebydd: Mr Richard Watson

The transport and education provision assessments of large-scale development of isolated rural communities, clearly show that these options are not economically or socially viable.
Overall numbers would suggest the need for 1 new secondary school for 6,000 new dwellings and 2 new secondary schools for 10,000 new homes.
At primary we would suggest the need for 3 or 4 new primary schools for 6,000 new dwellings and between 5 and 7 new primary schools for 10,000 new dwellings.
There are no existing schools, primary or Secondary within safe walking distances and so home to school transport would need to be provided for all children until new provision built.
In contradiction to the above education assessment requiring a minimum of 1 new secondary and 3 primary schools. In the intervening 3 months between this report in October 2024 and a subsequent Infrastructure Plan published January 2025 being published, the delivery of new schools has been completely eroded, instead relying on a vague plan to changing admissions arrangements and force some current capacity back into Oxfordshire:
The lack of detailed plans for inevitable capacity issues in Education and Healthcare, when compared with the evaluation of transport or environmental considerations are severely concerning. The existing development of Lighthorne Heath has continued without consideration
for Education or Healthcare capacity to increase, it appears that the County Council are currently unable to plan these provisions effectively, and are unable to enforce conditions upon developers to meet these needs within their proposals.