Policy information sourced from the Merton Sites and Policies Plan

DM C2 Education for children and young people

Link to Core Planning Strategy Policy CS 11 Infrastructure

Policy aim

To ensure there are sufficient school places of a suitable modern standard to meet statutory requirements while also ensuring sufficient choice of school places and a sufficient number of children’s day care facilities.

Policy

Schools (≥5)

  • Development proposals for new schools and/or improved education facilities for children (≥5) and young people will be supported, particularly where new facilities are required to provide additional school places in an area to meet an identified shortfall in supply.
  • Proposals that result in a net of loss of state funded school places will not be supported except where appropriately located alternative capacity is available.
  • Large development sites which will result in a substantial increased need for school places will need to incorporate provision for a new school on the proposal site.
  • Developments that provide additional school places will also be considered against all the criteria in Policy DM C1 a).

Children’s Day Care Centres (0-4)

  • Development proposals that provide additional children’s day care and Early Years places (aged 0- 4) will be supported where both criteria iv and vi in Policy DM C1 a) are met.
  • Proposals for children’s day care facilities that have been established by means of the conversion of one or more houses, to be converted back into residential accommodation, will be supported upon successful demonstration that the loss would not create, or add to, a shortfall in children’s day care provision within that area.
  • Development proposals resulting in a loss of existing children’s day care facilities, other than those described in part f) above, will also be considered against all the criteria in Policy DM C1 (b).

For more information see the Merton Sites and Policies Plan