| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Gunnersbury park for exclusive private school? | |
| Posted by: | Giusi Ortu | |
| Date/Time: | 30/04/13 18:23:00 |
| Hi there, I am member of STIG - Save Trees in Gunnersbury, perhaps you have heard of this small group. We stopped the council from cutting down over 400 trees to for housing development in 2009. What is happening now is the same stuff that has been happening in the last 20 years and as Miss Bela knowns very well, the council will try even this time to get read of not of trees, but green spaces ... On an even sadder note, the rental of this space (up to 50,000 £ per year) to the school will not even go to Gunnersbury Park, according to one of the Project Managers, which says it all... so we will be loosing greens paces, and even not getting any money for the park development and maintenance - pretty bad indeed! So the only option is a new fight, and as it has been said, we might be in need to really chain ourselves to the school railings or to some trees that by chance (not really by chance I think ...) will be about to be cut down for the setting up of the school area. It would be useful to start by asking the project manager in Ealing, Kirby Jo (actually his role is Assistant Director of Mayor Projects), to have the proposal that the school presented in the first place to the Council, at least we can have a look at this... His email is: kirb...@ealing.gov.uk he must made available this document as pdf to the public, so if he does not send it, another good reason to be suspicious and angry ... Then we can attack point by point this proposal - I believe that all those reassurances that both project managers gave during that meeting (not extra space taken from the park in front of the mansion, restricted perimeter of the school and not extendible, school premises available to the public during the weekend and so on...)were pure lies, and nothing of that is actually written in the proposal the school provided - So let's get this document and start our complaints - escalate during that meeting in June (it will be I guess the 7th of June) and have all the press talking about it - it worked in 2009 and it will work even now if we have enough strength to pursue this fight ... Of note, the meeting in June in which the community will have a say on this (see the web site above with this info), will not really give us the chance to have a say as the decision seems to be already made - but it will give us the chance to start our fight ! I was pretty free in the past for this fight - STIG has set up a google group that works and it is good for exchanging emails on this subject - Now I am a bit overwhelmed by my current job and I am really looking for somebody to give us help in this fight - we will need to do a big campaign as we did in the past and people are needed - if you are up to write to me! |