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Chichester Local Plan 2021 - 2039: Proposed Submission
Representation ID: 4825
Received: 17/03/2023
Respondent: Rydon Homes Limited
Agent: DMH Stallard LLP
Legally compliant? Yes
Sound? No
Duty to co-operate? Yes
Boxgrove Church of England (CoE) Primary School currently has capacity for just 70 pupils, 3 classes over 7 years. However, a typical 1 Form of Entry (FE) Primary School in England has a pupil capacity of 210 pupils. Boxgrove is a 1/3 FE School. The existing school site has the potential to increase its size/ pupil capacity, with the adjoining land under the ownership of West Sussex County Council (WSCC) and Boxgrove Parish Council (BPC). Policy A14, Land West of Tangmere includes a new two-form entry primary school and associated development, including provision for an early years setting and a special support centre. Further land is safeguarded to facilitate potential expansion of the two-form entry primary school to three-form entry’, provide ‘open space’, ‘green infrastructure’, ‘community orchard’, ‘playing pitches’, and ‘sport pavilion’. However, the same infrastructure is not being provided for in the Plan for Boxgrove Parish and we would like to see this area of the Infrastructure section re-assessed.
Education infrastructure cannot be cited as a constraint to Boxgrove Parish accommodating a higher (strategic level) of growth and this should be reflected in the Plan, with the existing Boxgrove CoE Primary School having the potential land to extend on-site and/or there being adequate capacity at the proposed 2FE Tangmere Primary School to accommodate a strategic level of growth within Boxgrove Parish.
Boxgrove Church of England (CoE) Primary School currently has capacity for just 70 pupils, 3 classes over 7 years. However, a typical 1 Form of Entry (FE) Primary School in England has a pupil capacity of 210 pupils. Boxgrove is a 1/3 FE School. However, the existing school site has the potential to increase its size/ pupil capacity, with the adjoining land under the ownership of West Sussex County Council (WSCC) and Boxgrove Parish Council (BPC).
Evidence shows that 1000 new homes generate circa 210 new Primary School pupils. The proposed 2FE Primary School at Tangmere Parish would accommodate circa 2,000 new pupils. The proposed Strategic Allocation for Tangmere (including the existing adopted Local Plan allocation) proposes 1,300 additional homes at Tangmere, therefore leaving a residual capacity for the proposed 2FE Primary School to accommodate an additional 700 homes within the Tangmere and surrounding Parishes. The pupil catchment map confirms that WSCC have accepted pupils to Boxgrove CoE Primary School from the Tangmere Parish and visa versa.