{"id":503,"date":"2015-02-04T15:59:32","date_gmt":"2015-02-04T15:59:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beta.devon.gov.uk\/planning\/?page_id=503"},"modified":"2026-02-16T12:34:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T12:34:13","slug":"pupil-place-planning","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/planning\/planning-policies\/pupil-place-planning\/","title":{"rendered":"Pupil place planning"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The team is responsible for all aspects of Children&#8217;s Services strategic planning, specifically:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>supporting the development of an overarching strategy for education provision within Devon<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>taking the corporate lead on Children Services Infrastructure requirements through the Local Development Framework process<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>the strategic planning and commissioning of school places including promoting choice and diversity and developing a market place of school provision<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>all the legislative and statutory changes to schools including <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/planning\/planning-policies\/pupil-place-planning\/new-schools\/\">new schools<\/a><\/strong>, enlargement, closures etc<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>securing, allocation and monitoring of capital resources (including section 106 and CIL) identified to meet statutory responsibilities in respect of additional pupil places<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>commissioning (in conjunction with the Learning Environments Team and\/or Academy\/Free school providers) of capital schemes identified to support the provision of additional pupil places<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>all statutory response in respect of pupils numbers, school capacities, pupil projections etc.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>reporting to School Organisation, Capital and Admissions Group (SOCA). Submitted reports are available to view <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/planning\/planning-policies\/pupil-place-planning\/papers-submitted-to-soca\">here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<div class=\"accordion-tabs-block\"><ul class=\"accordion\" id=\"block_acf-block-69930ec22ba65\" data-responsive-accordion-tabs=\"accordion medium-accordion large-accordion\" data-allow-all-closed=\"true\" data-multi-expand=\"true\"><li id=\"item-69930ec22ba65-0\" class=\"accordion-item\" data-accordion-item=\"\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"accordion-title\">Policy documents<\/a><div class=\"accordion-content\" data-tab-content><ul>\n<li><u><a href=\"https:\/\/devoncc.sharepoint.com\/:b:\/s\/PublicDocs\/Planning\/EejwgG43sxVJqO0p9dEqkEEBs6HwB5fGPKApC8YGjWnbFQ?e=qkmIov\" rel=\"noopener\">Education Infrastructure Plan<\/a><\/u><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/devoncc.sharepoint.com\/:b:\/s\/PublicDocs\/Planning\/EdrY7E9MmkVEkV12TyDZCX4BiiN9TrW-cJh2kiivPysjDg?e=K9c23x\" rel=\"noopener\">Education Approach for Developer Contributions (Sep 2025)<\/a> replaces existing approach, included in Education Infrastructure Plan, above.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/collections\/school-organisation\" rel=\"noopener\">DfE School Organisation Statutory Guidance<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/devoncc.sharepoint.com\/:b:\/s\/PublicDocs\/Planning\/Ef9f6tdIJ-BEsFKFNu7bQHoBy0do3HyVWtqRH6EuE0eeeg?e=2TE4yD\" rel=\"noopener\">Impact Assessment<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/devoncc.sharepoint.com\/:x:\/s\/PublicDocs\/Planning\/Edyt-r2qgcVKhwAYLG9TbssB1H5ykB3xDfxyrJR5G3S44Q?e=4sJPkD\" rel=\"noopener\">Special Provision Plan<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/li><\/ul><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The team is responsible for all aspects of Children&#8217;s Services strategic planning, specifically:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"parent":24,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-503","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-16 09:12:35","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/planning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/planning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/planning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/planning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/planning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=503"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/planning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6872,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/planning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/503\/revisions\/6872"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/planning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/planning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}