Decision details

Claremont Primary School, a Community School, has been approved by the Secretary of State to convert to an Academy as part of a multi-academy trust (The Elliot Foundation Academies Trust (“TEFAT”). As part of the conversion process, the Council is required to grant a lease of the land and buildings used by Claremont Primary School to the Academy Trust in the terms of the model long term Department for Education Academy Lease and this report sets out the main terms which incorporate appropriate provisions to accommodate any required rebuilding and expansion and/or relocation of the school in the event of the grant and implementation of planning permission for the regeneration of the area as the school falls within the Brent Cross Cricklewood south side development phase (“BXC”).

The Council, the Governing Body of the School, and the Academy Trust are also required to execute a Commercial Transfer Agreement, which includes information relating to: (i) any employees of the Council or the Governing Body who are assigned to the School and who will transfer from the employment of the Governing Body or the Local Authority to the

new Academy Trust; and (ii) assets and contracts which will transfer from the Local Authority or the Governing Body to the new Academy Trust, together with other rights and obligations of the Council or the Governing Body, including obligations pertaining to the possible rebuilding and expansion and/or relocation of the school in the event of the grant and implementation of planning permission for the regeneration of BXC .