Multi-academy trust has sold land at three of its schools in the past six years, it reveals

Disclosures by Anglian Learning continue investigation into academy policy's implications for control of land

A multi-academy trust operating in the East of England has sold off plots of land at three of its schools in the past six years, Education Uncovered can reveal.

Anglian Learning sold part of the site at Joyce Frankland Academy, in Newport in Essex, in 2020, and then a former caretaker’s house at Bassingbourn Village College, in South Cambridgeshire, in 2021. Both institutions are former foundation schools, meaning that control of the land would have passed to the academy trust freehold when they academised.

The revelations come after this website revealed last week that the 18-school trust last year sold a plot of land including a former caretaker’s home at The Netherhall School in Cambridge.

The trust also told me that it “has no current plans for further disposals of land”.