Issue - meetings

Motions

Meeting: 03/03/2022 - Finance and Resources Committee (Item 9)

By Councillor Staniforth - Russell Road Site - Consideration for Gaelic Medium Education High School

By Councillor Staniforth - Russell Road Site - Consideration for Gaelic Medium Education High School

 

“Committee:

 

1)         Notes the decision of this committee on 4 March 2021 to approve a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Russell Road Edinburgh Ltd (RREL) in order to explore regeneration of Russell Road, part of which is in the council's ownership and is currently in use as a depot;

 

2)         Notes that to date no MoU has been signed;

 

3)         Notes the decision of the Education, Children and Families Committee on 24 January 2022 not to proceed to a statutory consultation on a proposal for a new Gaelic Medium Education (GME) secondary school, but rather to continue informal consultation in order to identify a possible site for the school which is more centrally located;

 

4)         Notes the council site at Russell Road is one of the alternative sites under consideration for a GME high school, but notes that one of the reasons for it being unsuitable is, "the site is not available for a school development due to a previous approval as part of the council's depot strategy."

 

5)         Therefore agrees to suspend efforts to sign a MoU for Russell Road until such time as the feasibility of the site to host the GME Secondary school have been completed and reported back to this committee.”

 

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