Views needed on new school for St Pauls

Release Date:  16-Jun-2009

Views needed on location of new school for St Pauls

Views are needed on where a £10.5 million school, children's centre, GP surgery and social care offices should be located in St Pauls, Bristol City Council announced today.

Two public information sessions will be held this week to help gather views on three potential locations:

+ the old St James and St Agnes School site on Haltson Drive;
+ the Cabot school play area and old Andalucia school site facing onto Dove Lane; and
+ the Welsman/Children's Centre site (between the Inkerman Pub and St Pauls Park).

Cabinet Member for Children and Young People, Cllr Clare Campion-Smith said:

"We intend to open a new school for St Pauls for September 2012 and have the opportunity to locate it with other facilities for families.  We are at the stage where there are various pros and cons to all of the potential locations so it is really important that local people come forward now to let us know what they think."

Representatives of Bristol City Council and St Pauls Unlimited will be at the information sessions on Thursday 18 June at 3.30 - 4.30pm and 6 - 8pm at the cafe in St Pauls Learning and Family Centre, Grosvener Rd, St Pauls.

Background

1.  Following further local consultation on the design, plans will go forward for planning permission in January 2010.

2. Children and Young People Services (CYPS) is part of Bristol City Council and responsible for securing and co-ordinating services for all children and young people in the city.  This includes 110 primary schools, 13 secondary schools, seven academies, 14 special schools catering for 45,834 school-age children.  The city has 24 children's centres for the under-fives and CYPS provides and commissions services for families such as early years education, daycare, family support services, youth services and joint arrangements with health professionals including the largest children's community health service in the country.  The independent Bristol Safeguarding Children Board co-ordinates and leads work on child protection and child safety. Approximately 640 children are looked after by the council; the majority of these live with foster carers or in residential care.
 

Author:   Julia Walton 0117 9222732

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