§ 74. Mr. Watkinsasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science on what date the application was received from the Breconshire Education Committee for a new primary school in Crickhowell; on what date the project was approved; and why construction has not been proceeded with.
§ Mr. CroslandThe Breconshire local education authority applied for a place in a building programme for a new primary school at Crickhowell on 28th January, 1959. The project was allocated a place in the 1961–62 major school building programme; Notices under section 13(4) of the Education Act, 1944, were published by the Authority on 26th January, 1961, and the proposal was approved by the Department on 16th May, 1961. The authority did not then proceed with the project because it had difficulty in obtaining a site. I am informed that at a meeting on 2nd February, 1965, the Education Committee 259W resolved that a new primary school should not be built at Crickhowell. Instead I understand that the authority propose to transfer the pupils at present attending the Crickhowell Secondary Modern School to the Secondary Modern Technical School at Brecon, and to utilise the vacated secondary modern school premises for the Crickhowell Primary School.