Post date: Mar 02, 2016 5:20:35 PM
Stephen Robinson was invited to a meeting at Essex CC with the Cabinet Member for Education Cllr Ray Gooding, an Education Officer and a Property Officer.
Officers are still working on a business case for three, separate but small, schools for special needs on the site. It will be important that the users of the three units are kept separate, especially as some of the children attending the Autistic Spectrum School will be living on site Monday-Friday.
Architects have been asked to come up with a design that inspires and lifts the site, to give a real sense of place.
Essex CC officers will be meeting with Chelmsford Planning Officers within 10 days to discuss the planning brief for the site.
It was hoped to get ECC's Capital Programme Board to sign off the scheme in March/April, then to Cabinet and then to a planning application in late 2016 and procurement in 2017.