Publication Draft

Campion School has adopted a neutral position on decisions about the extent and location of new housing in the district. This is for local policy makers, informed by the democratic process, to decide.
However, in the event of decisions to construct a substantial volume of new housing, the school governors have a clear position. We are most willing to increase student number capacity of the school in response to additional demand created by house building.
We at Campion School will work closely with our colleagues at Myton School and Warwickshire County Council. This will ensure that additional places can be found by increasing the size of the two schools in an agreed and coordinated fashion. This "two school solution" will meet expected demand, strengthen burgeoning partnerships and help create cohesion in secondary school provision in South Warwick, South Leamington and Whitnash.
Our understanding is that the school grounds will be large enough for the development of the new buildings required for an increase in school capacity whilst retaining sufficient playing field space.
It is absolutely necessary that school expansion to meet additional demand is supported adequately by basic need funding and payments from Section 106 and the Community Infrastructure Levy. We believe that the s106/CIL allocation for Campion modelled in WDC's Draft Infrastructure Plan is in error but also that this can be rectified by further discussion.
However, it is necessary to restate that it would be impossible for Campion to expand its capacity by several hundred places without due funding allocation.