I was pleased to attend the Planning Applications Cttee tonight to support the application for a school at All Saints. The Application was unanimously supported by councillors and All Saints are free to get on with the building in time for next September.
Reading Borough Council has required the capital funder, the Department of Education (DFE) to pay the Section 106 money for infrastructure costs. However, the DFE are not paying this and putting the extra cost onto the Reading Council Tax payer.
A report will come to Cabinet about this attempted precedent set. Rest assured as Lead Councillor for Education and Children's Services I will strongly lobby the DFE to get the payment deserved for the Borough. One thing is right is that the school should not pay when it is clearly the duty of the DFE.
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