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Stirring in the undergrowth …. a Penn School update – Penn and Tylers Green Residents Society Penn and Tylers Green RS HomeAbout Us Residents Society GrantsVillage VoiceVillage Pre SchoolCommon Wood LocationPenn and Tylers GreenHistory Village Life Education and ChildcarePlanning and Conservation Ashwells DevelopmentLocal Plans ( WDC & CDC)Stirring in the undergrowth …. a Penn School updateVillage developments Clubs, Societies, ServicesWalksPlaces to VisitTravelPoliceCouncilJointPolitySafety Latest News News and Views ContactGallery Churches and ChapelsCommonsCommon WoodFarmsGaragesGeneralGomm ValleyHallsHouses and CottagesKingswoodPenn Parish CouncilPenn TilesPharmacy, Surgery, Care HomePubsRayners (Penn School)SchoolsShops EtcWar Memorial Village Life » Planning and Conservation » Stirring in the undergrowth …. a Penn School update Stirring in the undergrowth …. a Penn School update   January 2018. Although progress continues to be glacial, there are reasons to be cheerful well-nigh the future for the Penn School site as the Rayners School Education Trust (RSET) comes out of wardship and Bucks County Council develops a vision for the future use of the site. Taking the RSET point first, on January 8th there was an item on Three Counties Radio well-nigh what has happened to the money paid by the DfE to RSET for the Penn School site. It turns out that, now the wardship process is well-constructed and all the bills have been settled, there is just over £3m remaining which the Trustees will now have to decide what to do with. As a soft-heartedness they are obliged to spend the money in vibrations with their charitable objects which are “to whop the education and relief of people (in particular children and young adults) who suffer liaison difficulties associated with hearing impairment, language impairment and autism”. On the second point, Bucks CC is believed to be interested in using the Penn School site as a way of responding to a growing special educational need and to help mitigate the forfeit of pupils stuff educated out-of-county. Meetings have been taking place involving key stakeholder groups – specialist providers, parents and representatives from the local polity – to shape how the site could be used. Hopefully things are on the move at last – stay tuned. ————————————————————————————————————————————- Penn School, Village VoiceVendible– Aug/Sept Edition Penn School – two years and counting …… It is now nearly two years since Penn School sealed and there is still no real progress to report. ————————————————————————————————————————————- Penn School, Village Voice – June/July Edition: Still no news The Penn School Working Group has been keeping tropical tabs on the three applications to unshut a self-ruling school on the former Penn School site. ———————————————————————————————————————————— Penn School, Village VoiceVendible– April/May Edition Penn School Site – The Mist Is Beginning To Clear To remind you of the story so far ….. in March 2016 the Education Funding Agency (EFA), which is part of the Department for Education, purchased the Penn School site as the proposed location for a new self-ruling school. ————————————————————————————————————————————- Penn School –RemoterWorkOverdueThe Scenes Meeting key people and drawing sustentation to the fundamental issues Over the undertow of the past four months the Working Group has met with senior representatives of the Education Funding Agency and the Regional Schools Commissioner as well as our County Councillors and local MPs. We have moreover met with Bucks CC to raise concerns well-nigh their Special Education Needs strategy as well as their forecasts for future secondary school places. This vendible will towards in Village Voice in March 2017 and provides remoter preliminaries on these developments. Village Voice Jan 2017 ————————————————————————————————————————————– A 1000 Pupil Secondary School – What Do You Think? Important update for residents of Penn & Tylers Green The Penn School Working Group protract to yank the sustentation of local residents to the preference that Bucks CC has expressed to use the former Penn School site for a future large secondary self-ruling school for 1000 pupils. This article, published in Village Voice in December 2016, provides a remoter update on the work of the Group as it tries to influence the key people who are making decisions that will fundamentally impact the quality of life for everyone living in Penn & Tylers Green. The vendible is published here: VV Dec/Jan             ————————————————————————————————————————————- Penn School Update – Working GroupWorkedEstablishing a dialogue with key stakeholders In the late summer of 2016 a small Working Group was worked comprising some Directors of the P&TGRS and two local residents with educational preliminaries and interests. The Group was established to bring influence to withstand on key contacts including senior staff in the Educational Funding Agency, the Regional School Commissioner, the Trustees of the Rayners School Educational Trust, our Parish Councils, our County Councillors, our local MPs and the Officers working for Children’s Services at Bucks CC. This vendible in Village Voice in October 2016 provides a unenduring update on these matters. The vendible is published here: VV Oct/Nov             —————————————————————————————————————————————- Bucks CC Advert Re. A SecondarySelf-rulingSchool In Penn September 2016 deadline set for secondary self-ruling school applications This document was sent to all secondary schools in the Local Authority zone on 14th July, 2016 encouraging them to consider applying to run a new secondary self-ruling school on the site of the former Penn School. In this advert Buckinghamshire County Council claims that a new school is needed to meet a rising demand for secondary school places and that the new school needs to be opened by September 2018. We now know that the assertions made well-nigh a future need for spare secondary school places are questionable. For remoter details of the notice follow the link here…….BCC Bulletin Penn School – 14th July ————————————————————————————————————————————— P&TGRS Letter To The Education Funding Agency Determining the future for the site of the former Penn School The Education Funding Agency purchased the Penn School site in March 2016 as the location for a futureSelf-rulingSchool. The New Local Plan for Wycombe District, which was published in June 2016, included an unexpected proposal on page 206 in Appendix F for a new 5 or 6 form-entry secondary school on the site of the former Penn School. The P&TGRS team was mobilized and expressed grave concerns that the proposed school might be expected to support 1000 to 1200+ pupils – increasingly than ten times the previous number of pupils. Apart from the Planning constraints, the huge increase in the volume of traffic inward and leaving the village to transport children to and from the school would have serious Highways implications having an unprecedented impact on the villages and the Conservation Area. This is the letter from the P&TGRS the EFA expressing serious snooping well-nigh the future use of the site. P&TGRS – Planning – Penn School Site – Letter to Lara Newman, DfE- EFA – LocatED, 24th Aug 16 ————————————————————————————————————————————– Redeveloping The Penn School Site – Planning Restrictions The Planning restrictions on the future of the site are considerable In December 2015, in order to support the process of selling the site, the Planning department of Wycombe District Council produced a summary of the Planning considerations relating to this 19-acre site stating “it will be important to retain the older historic buildings including garden structures, specimen trees, railings and purlieus walls…. physical subdivision of the site would not be encouraged…. and well-constructed redevelopment of the site would be unacceptable”. This vendible contains the full, four page Planning framework and draws sustentation to the importance of consulting with Highways considering of the limited wangle to the site. Planning-policy-framework-for-Penn-School ————————————————————————————————————————————- History Of Penn School & The RaynersManorPenn School site – a glimpse overdue the gate In his typesetting “Mansions and mud houses – the story of Penn & Tylers Green” (ISBN 978-0-9555798) Miles Green noted that Penn School (Rayners) was built in 1847 by Philip Rose (1816-1883), a solicitor from a local Wycombe family, many of them Mayors. The main towers was its owner’s pride and joy having elaborate tracery and fine detailed brickwork. The manor was sold to the London County Council and became a school for deaf children in 1921. Since the closure of Penn School in 2015 and its subsequent sale to the Education Funding Agency in early 2016, the manor has been locked up and is sealed from public view. These two pages provide a fascinating glimpse overdue the gate by giving a unenduring summary of the history of the manor and it includes some fascinating photographs. ————————————————————————————————————————————– Penn School Closes …… After a 94-year undertone with Penn & Tylers Green, Penn School closes For 14 years from July 2001 Penn School was run as an self-sustaining educational trust. However, its fortunes deteriorated considerably pursuit a poor Ofsted inspection in 2013 and by July 2015 the school was not financially viable. It was immediately placed in wardship and in September 2015, Deloittes, the school’s administrators spoken they had been unable to sell the school as a going concern. This vendible is from the Village Voice magazine from October 2015 and charts the educational history of Penn School. vv_201505_oct_nov_Issue_170 – Penn School ————————————————————————————————————————————— Site of Penn School under threat then Residents might have noted that the Penn & Tylers Green Residents Society response to the WDC Draft Local Plan included the strong expression of snooping unelevated well-nigh a very large secondary school proposed for the Rayners site: ‘ Penn School – A secondary school with 6 forms in each year, i.e. over 40 forms, and over 1200 pupils (Appx F, p.206).  This an horrifying proposal on which there is no information and has been no discussion.  A school of that size would bring up to 1,260 pupils.  Given that most of those students will be from some distance, and that school bus transport is a thing of the past, the traffic implications are ghastly and, would be much increasingly disruptive to the heart of the Penn/Tyler’s Green village than plane the Gomm Valley development.   The roads are totally unsuitable, and the archway itself completely inadequate.’ the full rundown paper is misogynist to read here:webv-penn-school-briefing-28-8-16 PTGRS is represented on the Working Group so will regularly update residents on this website when developments occur.  Posted by admin at 3:54 pm Search Ashwells DevelopmentLocal PlansStirring in the undergrowth Penn SchoolVillage Developments © 2016 Penn and Tylers Green Residents Society Website Design Perfect PCs (Perfect Pixels Web Design) Privacy Statement Copyright and Disclaimer Penn and Tylers Green Residents Society RegisteredSoft-heartednessno. 1098879 Company no: 4701734 P&TGRS does not winnow responsibility for the views of individual contributors to the website unless specifically stated Suffusion theme by Sayontan Sinha This website uses cookies to modernize your experience. 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