New Milton Neighbourhood Plan

A scooter rider uses the Skatepark at the Recreation Ground

NM18: Education

Policy NM18: Education

Proposals to extend, improve and introduce new school place capacity will be supported provided: 

  1. the scale of the buildings and structures minimise the effect of the scheme on local residential amenity by way of traffic, on-street car parking and outdoor noise and lighting pollution; and 
  2. there is adequate provision to encourage walking and/or cycling to and from the school. 

This policy is proposed to remain unchanged from the current Neighbourhood Plan

Supporting Text

Hampshire County Council (the Local Education Authority) have advised that having considered the housing proposals in the Neighbourhood Plan, no new school accommodation would be needed to serve the town and that growth in pupil numbers can be accommodated by expansion of the existing schools in the New Milton education planning area. 

The purpose of this policy is to ensure, where school expansion takes place, that the impacts of this expansion on local traffic and on households in the vicinity are managed effectively.