Details about village’s new primary school set to be voted on
» SENIOR councillors are set to vote on details of a new primary school in Bishop’s Cleeve as the meeting date has been set.
Gloucestershire County Council’s cabinet will consider a report on December 16 about primary school provision in the village.
It was reported the authority was exploring whether to add a 630 primary school to Cleeve School, a secondary college and sixth form college, as part of one of three options.
Locals including the parish council have recommended a new primary should be built at Northenham allotments, in Evesham Road.
The county council has said before the village needs an extra 90 reception places by 2021 and none of the other primary schools have room to expand to accommodate the rise in pupil numbers.
Council papers are released up to a week before a meeting is held, so further details about Bishop’s Cleeve’s primary school provision could come as early as December 9.
The county council confirmed the date after Tewkesbury Borough Council answered a members question from Cleeve West councillor Richard Stanley last month.
The answer to Mr Stanley’s question said: “In relation to the provision of a school for the Bishop’s Cleeve area, the County Council has advised that a report is currently being prepared for consideration by the county council at its meeting on 16 December 2020 and the report will be published in the week before the meeting.
“This will outline the county council’s plans for a new school.”
The village has a growing population of around 15,000, boosted in part by the recent developments of 450 homes in Homelands and 500 new homes in the Cleevelands development, which were approved by the government in 2012.
It’s also set to grow as Persimmon wants to extend the Greenacres site north by an extra 500 homes on fields opposite the Farmers’ Arms.
Gladman Developments, won an appeal against Tewkesbury Borough Council’s planning committee’s decision to refuse 215 homes on the western edge of the village.