Planning applications in Brent, October 2008

Ark Academy, Forty Avenue, Wembley, HA9 9JR

New school academy (6 forms of entry secondary school, 2 forms of entry primary school & nursery) comprising 2-, 3- and 4-storey main school building, 2-storey sports/drama hall with changing facilities, 3 hard play areas, all-weather, floodlit sports pitch, smaller floodlit sports pitch, outdoor play areas, soft play/natural habitat landscaped area, 45 staff-parking spaces, 3 disabled-parking spaces, 102 cycle-parking spaces and associated landscaping with access from Forty Avenue and Bridge Road, HA9 (as accompanied by: Revised Design and Access Statement dated February 2009; Untitled 3D visualisation drawings received 28 January 2009; Revised Transport Assessment by TPC dated March 2009; Statement of Community involvement in the process of establishing Ark Academy; Flood Risk Assessment Revision A by Dewhurst Macfarlane and Partners; Calculations confirming the proposed academy will discharge less than half the foul plus surface water drainage into the existing sewer system, by Dewhurst Macfarlane and Partners; Additional calculations, by Dewhurst Macfarlane and Partners; Flood Risk Assessment calculation sent by Smith Construction dated 24 March 2009; Energy Statement by Faber Maunsell dated 15 October 2008; Faber Maunsell letter dated 6 February 2009; Faber Maunsell Technical Note dated February 2009; Faber Maunsell document - Issue 2 - October 2008; Faber Maunsell Heat Loss and Overheating Analysis - January 2009; Desk Study and Preliminary Ground Investigation by Soil Consultants dated 14 January 2008; Draft Landscape Management Plan for Wembley Academy Natural Habitat Area along Forty Avenue Site Boundary, by Form Associates dated October 2008; Phase 1 Habitat Survey and Protected Species Assessment, by ecology consultancy dated January 2008; Tree Survey and Arboricultural Report by Challice Consulting Ltd dated 21 July 2008; Willmott Dixon Sport England Response issued 5 February 2009; 'Paper 1' - Educational need for a new secondary school with 2 form entry feeder primary; 'Paper 2' - Site selection for a new school; 'Paper 3' - Open Space Assessment; Ark Academy Access Statement by Jane Simpson Access; Ark Academy Design Challenger/ Advisor Comments dated 23.02.09; Wilmott Dixon response to GLA Stage 1 comments dated 28 January 2009; Wilmott Dixon response to Sport England comments dated 5 February 2009; Council's Screening Opinion and checklist dated 5 June 2008; Report to Executive 'School Places - follow up review of sites and pupil number forecasts - 15 January 2007'; Report to Scrutiny Committee 'Primary and Secondary Places Update' - 26 November 2008; Report to Executive 'A Strategy for the Development of Primary and Secondary Schools - Options for Delivering Additional School Places' - 13 November 2006; Approved Admissions Arrangements for Ark Academy (Primary - 2009/10 school year))