ON THE 180th page of a daunting 398-sheet document, you will find the crippling regulations to which new schools must adhere before they are allowed to have so much as a single pupil walk through the door.
Astonishingly, these even include restrictive rules on what sort of cycle racks must be provided, how much space should be given to vertical and horizontal types, and the exact distance between the racks, down to the last millimetre.
New Education Secretary Michael Gove last week launched his schools revolution, with one of his first acts being to relieve them of the more ludicrous planning rules.
He will make it possible to convert existing buildings without applying for a costly and lengthy change of use which until now has stopped most projects in their tracks.
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