Councillors decided the priority was affordable housing and not funding education
An estate of more than 400 new homes which has been given the go-ahead in Preston will not generate a penny to fund new secondary school places, after councillors decided that it was more important for affordable housing to be provided instead.
The committee heard that in order to comply with local planning policies governing developer contributions, Wain Homes would be expected to fork out £13.6m for the larger plot – almost £32,000 for every house to be built. The potential location of the new facility is the subject of an ongoing wrangle previously revealed by the Local Democracy Reporting Service. Land has been earmarked for the school as part of a 320-home development in Higher Bartle, but County Hall recently consulted on the option of building on the site of the former Tulketh High School instead – and is now considering its options after receiving some negative feedback over the proposal.
Committee members were presented with a range of options about how the requested cash commitment could be split between the provision of affordable housing, secondary school places and funding for the East-West link road, which will be the main access point for the development. The possibilities ranged from 10 to 30 per cent of the properties being classed as affordable, along with differing levels of cash contribution within that span, reflecting the cost of providing below market rate homes.
Cllr Potter said that he would have come down on a different side of “the line” between how much of the cash should be used to supply affordable housing and the amount that should be reserved for secondary school places. He added: “[It] makes us look…stupid if we pass something that has zero secondary school [funding] when we have a secondary school crisis in that part of Preston.”
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