Summary
3. Education Facilities and the Local Development Plan (LDP)
3.1 To plan for the future of education facilities in the Vale of Glamorgan, the LDP will need to:
• Identify whether adequate capacity will be available to meet future demands generated as a result of new development;
• Identify land required to meet the requirements for new / extended school provision; and
• Ensure new / extended educational facilities can be readily and economically delivered to meet the needs arising from new development.
4. Population Projections and Demand for Educational Facilities
4.2 Pupil numbers generated by new housing developments are based on the following calculation
derived from census data of households in the Vale of Glamorgan:
4.6 Where the new pupils generated cannot be met by available spare capacity within existing local schools, additional school places need to be provided. It should be noted that existing spare capacity should not automatically be taken into account, particularly where it is likely to be taken up by other development already granted planning permission, where works are required to make the existing school accommodation fit for purpose, or where the capacity is due to be removed as accommodation is life-expired.
5.7 the following schools will need to be extended or improved as a direct result of new housing and associated population growth during the plan period:
• COWBRIDGE COMPREHENSIVE
• ST. NICHOLAS CHURCH IN WALES PRIMARY
• PETERSTON-SUPER-ELY CHURCH IN WALES PRIMARY
6.2 In particular the following schools have been identified as being likely to require expansion to cope with additional demand but for the reasons above have not been included in proposals to extend to the full extent of demand generated. Appropriate alternative provision will be made through extending alternative schools, providing new schools and managing admissions to maximise the effective use of current surplus capacity.
• Cowbridge Comprehensive (extend school by 1 form only)
8. Delivery Mechanisms
8.1 Historically the Vale of Glamorgan Council has used planning obligations within Section 106 legal agreements to secure either financial contributions for educational facilities or actual provision of land or schools on large development sites.
8.3 The Council is working towards introducing a Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL) for its area to deliver strategic infrastructure improvements to support the development of the area in accordance with the Local Development Plan (LDP).
Of the 53 children living in the St Nicholas catchment area, only 45.28% attend St Nicholas, 32.08% study at other English Medium schools, whilst 22.64% study at Welsh language schools. St. Nicholas school lacks a nursery, so parents opt to keep their child at the school where they attended nursery.
 9 extra nursery places could be created by the LDP, with no provision for nursery education at St Nicholas School.
Source: this data come from adding the two tables from the document "Education Facilities" (Pages 23 and 24). The VoG document has broken this table into two, and has as a result not given the correct total for increased capacity.
Appendix C - Impact of New Housing Development on Schools in the Vale of Glamorgan
Primary and Secondary Schools
Note:
For Primary Schools spare capacity has been analysed at 2018 based on pupil projections, Numbers on Role and proportional splits (as shown at Appendix B). For Secondary Schools, spare capacity has been analysed at 2025 based on projections over longer forecasts due to available information on primary school numbers on role and proportional splits. The sites have been listed in order of phasing to prioritise school places for those housing developments that are likely to be delivered first and the overall conclusions are based on a ‘whole picture’ analysis at the end of the plan period 2026. If development sites come forward earlier analysis of the specific need for school places arising from it will need to be undertaken at that time as part of the planning application.
Key:
English = English Medium Education Facility
Welsh = Welsh Medium Education Facility
CIW = Church in Wales Denominational Education Facility
RC = Roman Catholic Denominational Education Facility
SEN = Special Educational Needs Educational Facility
  taxi to St Nicholas required at cost of £30 per day £28,500 for 5 years.
 C/W taxi required at cost of approx £35 per day, £33250 for 5 years
 Bonvilston: Need EM provision (10 places) no provision if St Nicholas accommodates, but if not, approx £100 per day for minibus £95000 for 5 years
St Nicholas: Need EM provision (9 places) no provision required if school accommodates, but else minibus required at approx £100 per day £95000 for 5 years
 See total below No provision to EM Taxi to WM 6.4 miles approx £40 per day £38,000 for 5 years.
No provision for C/W
Llancarfan: Taxi to St Nicholas for C/W approx 5 miles approx £30 per day £28,500 for 5 years
Peterston-Super-Ely Primary Additional pupil places required from LDP housing growth 6 Extend school to increase capacity from 171 to 210 places on existing site (+33 Capacity).
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School Additional pupil places required from LDP housing growth
Action required to meet additional demand for pupil places
St. Nicholas Primary 37
Extend school to increase capacity from by 1 class i.e. 30 places on existing site (-7 Capacity), additional demand can be met through admissions arrangements.
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Nursery:
St. Nicholas 9
Additional demand can be met at Peterstone School through expansion (Note: Councils spelling of Peterston)
 6.46 Community facilities such as community halls, libraries, schools and leisure centres are essential to the social and physical wellbeing of residents and are key components in maintaining the vitality and viability of community life in both urban and rural settlements.
6.49. Policy MG 7 also promotes the development of multi-use community facilities that offer a range of accessible community based services such as leisure, health care, education community meeting space and other essential community services. Such facilities can assist in reducing travel demand, promote sustainable communities, and facilitate in the effective delivery of community facilities by a number of organisations. In this regard, the Plan will also favour development of multi-use facilities on the sites identified in Policy MG 7, in association with educational proposals identified in Policy MG 6, and planning proposals that improve the viability, accessibility or community value of existing services and facilities such as village shops, post offices, rural petrol stations, village & church halls and rural public houses.  |
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