PLANS to expand two primary schools have been approved by the county council’s cabinet.
The group of senior councillors last night agreed to allow Queensway Primary School in Banbury and Wolvercote Primary School in Oxford to expand.
Queensway currently takes 30 children every year, but will now increase its annual intake to 60.
Wolvercote’s annual intake will increase from 30 to 45.
At the meeting at County Hall yesterday, the cabinet also agreed to begin consulting parents on plans to expand St Joseph's Catholic Primary School in Oxford and Watchfield Primary School.
Cabinet member for education Melinda Tilley said: “This is fairly straightforward. We have already published statutory notices for Wolvercote and Queensway, so this is the final approval for those.”
At the meeting, the cabinet also discussed plans to hand the decision-making process on school expansions to Mrs Tilley.
At the moment, the whole executive needs to approve the expansion of schools, but in the future Mrs Tilley may be able to make the decisions on her own, albeit in open sessions.
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