Petitions

Wednesday 6th February 2019

(5 years, 2 months ago)

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Wednesday 6 February 2019

The future of maintained nursery schools

Wednesday 6th February 2019

(5 years, 2 months ago)

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The Petition of the parents, carers and staff of Grasmere Nursery School in Luton; received 5 February 2019.
Declares that we are concerned about the future of maintained nursery schools in England after March 2020 as no guarantee has been given by the Government that adequate funding will continue when supplementary funding ends.
The petitioners therefore request that the House of Commons to urge the Government to take action to ensure nursery schools are financially sustainable for the future.
And the petitioners remain, etc—[Presented by Kelvin Hopkins .]
[P002414]
Petitions in the same terms were presented by:
The hon. Member for Broxbourne (Mr Charles Walker):
The petition of the parents, careers, staff and governors of Greenfield maintained nursery school in Waltham Cross.
[P002336]
The petition of the parents, careers, staff and governors of Arlesdene Nursery School maintained nursery school and Pre-school in Hertfordshire
[P002337]
The hon. Member for Huntingdon (Mr Jonathan Djanogly):
The petition of the parents, carers, staff and governors and local community of Huntingdon Nursery School, maintained nursery school in Cambridgeshire.
[P002398]
The hon. Member for Manchester Central (Lucy Powell):
The petition of the parents, carers, staff and governors of Rowland Hill Nursery, maintained nursery school in Haringey London,
[P002402]
The petition of the parents, carers, staff and governors of Woodlands Park, maintained nursery school in Haringey,
[P002403]
The petition of The parents, carers, staff, governors and other local community contacts of Kintore Way maintained nursery school in Southwark.
[P002406]
The petition of the parents, carers, staff and governors of Pembury House, maintained nursery school in Haringey,
[P002407]
The petition of The parents, carers, staff and governors of Ribblesdale Nursery School , maintained nursery school in Clitheroe, Lancashire,
[P002409]
The hon. Member for Walthamstow (Stella Creasy):
The petition of the parents, carers, staff and governors of Church Hill and Low Hill maintained nursery schools in Waltham Forest.
[P002411]
The Lord Commissioner of Her Majesty’s Treasury, the hon. Member for Finchley and Golders Green (Mike Freer):
The Petition of the parents, cares, staff and governors of Moss hall maintained nursery school in Barnet.
[P002412]
The hon. Member for Luton North (Kelvin Hopkins):
The Petition of the parents, carers and staff of Gill Blowers Nursery School in Luton.
[P002413]
The petition of the parents, carers and staff of Chapel Street, Gill Blowers, Grasmere, Hart Hill, Pastures Way and Rothesay maintained nursery schools in Luton.
[P002415]
The hon. Member for Broxbourne (Mr Charles Walker):
The petition of The parents, carers, staff and governors of Rye Park, maintained nursery school in Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire,
[P002397]
The hon. Member for Coventry South (Mr Jim Cunningham):
The petition of the parents, careers, staff and governors of Hillfields maintained nursery school in Coventry.
[P002416]

Sale of Jackson Lane Car Park

Wednesday 6th February 2019

(5 years, 2 months ago)

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The Humble Petition of residents of Wellingborough, Northamptonshire and the surrounding area,
Sheweth,
That the Petitioners believe that the proposed sale of the Jackson Car Park, should be refused on the grounds of the loss of public parking in the area which will have an enormous effect on local businesses, doctors surgery, the chemists, the Salvation Army, the Afro Caribbean Association, the Daylight Centre, the Society of Friends, the Job Centre and the United Reformed Church.
Wherefore your Petitioners pray that your Honourable House urges the Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government and the Borough Council in Wellingborough to take in account the concerns of the petitioners and refuse to grant the sale of the Jackson Lane Car Park to a private developer.
And your Petitioners, as in duty bound, will ever pray, &c.—[Presented by Mr Peter Bone , Official Report, 12 September 2018; Vol. 646, c. 829 .]
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Observations from the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government (Rishi Sunak):
Parking is the responsibility of local authorities and it is for them to determine what is appropriate in their own area. Central Government have no remit to intervene in local authorities’ day to day affairs.
However, under the Community Right to Bid legislation community groups have listed car parks as assets of community value. The scheme allows communities and parish councils to nominate buildings or land for listing by the local authority as Assets of Community Value. Any asset can be listed if its principal use furthers, or has recently furthered, their community’s social well-being or social interests which include cultural, sporting or recreational interests, and is likely to do so in the future.
I should point out that the listing of Assets of Community Value is a matter for the local authority and as such the Department does not comment on individual cases.
If successful, listed and made available for sale, community interest groups then have six weeks (the interim moratorium period) to lodge a non-binding expression of interest. This triggers a moratorium of a further four and half months (six months in total—the full moratorium period) to delay the sale of the asset. This affords community interest groups sufficient time to prepare and raise money to bid for it.
What the scheme does not do is compel the owner to sell to a community group, or set the price at which the owner must sell. The scheme seeks to balance the rights of private property owners with the interests of the community where the local authority agrees that the asset in question is an Asset of Community Value.