Issue - items at meetings - Questions and Letters from the public and Councillors

A letter from Councillor Mitchell.

23.1         Councillor Mitchell introduced the item, advising the Committee that through her casework an anomaly had been identified in calculating home to school distances for the purposes of school admission and that the issue was now being resolved. The issue was that the computer programme did not recognise private roads. In one particular case an additional 245 meters was added onto the route.

23.2         Other issues raised by Members were :

·        that shortcuts through parks were also not considered and in one case 150 meters had been added onto the route

·        the front path outside Westdene Primary School was also not recognised.

23.3     CYPOSC agreed that this anomaly may have affected a number of children, especially primary school children and it was important that parents did not lose confidence in the system. The Committee requested a to hear a report at their next meeting which explained how school distances were calculated and how were anomalies addressed accurately.