Economic Benefits of Co-Location
Community
- Community sport/art facilities – availability, scope, standard
- Reduce pollution from traffic and noise
- Reduce traffic congestion
- Greater access to facilities, e.g. air cadets, scouts
- Easier access to site off main road
- Reduce the carbon footprint
- Remove ASB concern
- Policing savings
- Transport
Education
- Centre of educational excellence for Sleaford and local area
- Extend influence to wider catchment
- Meet the growing demand for places
- Expansion of best grammar school practice in line with Green Paper
- Up to date facilities
- Wraparound care & enhanced safeguarding
- Creation of a sustainable wider curriculum offer
- Attraction and retention of teachers
- External use of building for adult learning systems
- Examination areas improved
- Develop as a MAT to support other local primary/secondary schools
- Enhance reputation as most collaborative of local selective schools
Regeneration
- Reduce traffic congestion
- Use of girls’ school (housing)
- Use of boys’ school (retail/housing)
- Larger retail units to meet demand
- Aspirations for pedestrianisation of Southgate
- Construction: Jobs, School, Existing sites
- Inward investment
- Enhanced reputation for town
- Positive impact on housing and employment market
Financial
- Asset lifetime costs
- Maintenance
- Utilities and charges
- Income – community use & hiring of facilities
- Reduce ongoing revenue costs
- Reduce staffing costs
- Reduction in energy use: thermal efficiency of building
- Greater efficiency in the use of space
- Opportunity to lead as a model of efficiency
- Set example to other schools and MATs locally and nationally
- Financial protection/security at a time where outstanding pupil outcomes are increasingly compromised by reduced budgets