Issue - meetings

  Report CEF23026

The report set out the Education Planned Maintenance Programme for 2023/24.

The Local Authority received an annual School Conditions Allocation from the Department of Education to undertake capital maintenance works at Local Authority Maintained Schools.  The allocation for 2023/24 was made on the basis of five remaining Local Authority Maintained Schools, of which Riverside SEND School operated out of four satellite sites and would be distributed with reference to each school’s development plan as well as condition surveys and the Department for Education’s Condition Data Collection reports.  The Local Authority was also supporting decarbonisation of the maintained school estate for which £39k had been set aside in the Education Planned Maintenance Programme 2023/24 with an additional capital expenditure contribution of £60k secured in principle from Section 106 funds to support solar panels at schools subject to meeting carbon reduction criteria.

In response to a question from a Co-opted Member, the Head of Strategic Place Planning advised that that Local Authority had previously secured a grant from the Salix for Public Sector Decarbonisation Scheme Phase 3 scheme to replace the heating system at Southborough Primary School and that further bids would be made to this scheme where applicable to deliver necessary heat decarbonisation and energy efficiency projects across Bromley schools.

RESOLVED: That the Portfolio Holder be recommended to:

·  Note the School Condition Allocation of £388,472 from the Department for Education to support the capital maintenance of community and foundation-maintained schools within Bromley during 2023/24;

·  Delegate authority to the Director of Education to authorise the allocation of the £388,472 School Condition Allocation received for 2023/24;

·  Note an additional £60,000 capital expenditure funding from Section 106 allocations to support decarbonisation;

·  Authorise the proposed expenditure of capital funding up to the sum of £865k based on the five remaining Community and Foundation schools as set out in Report CEF23026;

·  Agree that maintenance works will normally be procured through open procurement. The Local Authority may also on occasion delegate funds to schools or commission its Corporate Property Team to deliver capital works; and,

·  Note that the Local Authority’s Lot 4 consultant has been commissioned to support the Local Authority where required in the planning and project management of education planned maintenance works.