Please can you provide a comprehensive list of educational assets (that is: land and school buildings) transferred from your local authority to the Church of England (also “Diocese”) between 2010 and 31 December 2023. I would be grateful if you could also provide the following information:
- the name and type (community, voluntary aided, voluntary controlled, etc) of the school of which the property was owned by prior to transfer
- whether the transfer of assets came about as part of a school merger
- if yes to the above, the name and type (community, voluntary aided, voluntary controlled, free school, academy, etc) of school following the merger.
We can confirm the following information:
We should clarify the following:
1. Spreadsheet detailing leases granted to academies include a couple of non lease references. It was unknown if the grant of a leasehold interest is considered a transfer in this context.
2. Spreadsheet listing freehold transactions involving church schools. The transaction date is given and there is sometimes a partial description in the site description. However, there would have to be separate checks on each school to provide a description of the land transferred. Please note the description of Site Status is the school’s current status. At the time of the freehold transfer the school is highly unlikely to be an Academy.
3. We do not have any references to merged schools.
There will be other transactions in progress.