Issue - decisions

County Councillor Matthew Tomlinson, the Cabinet Member for Children, Young People and Schools:

(i)  noted the consultation arrangements which were undertaken and the responses that were received in respect of the authority's proposals; and

(ii)  approved that the authority publishes Statutory Notices of its proposals to close Deepdale Junior School, with effect from 31 December 2014 and to expand Deepdale Infant School by extending the age range from 3 – 7 years to 3 – 11 years to become a primary school with a capacity for 630 primary age pupils, with effect from 1 January 2015.