| Topic: | Re:proposed new school - bottom of barclays site | |
| Posted by: | Tessa Timoney | |
| Date/Time: | 01/07/18 15:48:00 |
| There is no transport strategy or planning for schools in Ealing. The fact that the school has changed names shows there is no transparency to the local community or parents. Most of the children who are supposed to come to this new school come from the south and east of ealing towards chiswick, Acton Boarders as there is little provision of schools in Hounslow. There are already at least 6 independent schools ( 2 of which already have over 1000 pupils) are in a 1 mile radius of central Ealing. Ealing has a least 2 colleges of higher Education and one University. Central Ealing does more than its fare share for Education. Bringing children out of catchment to an unsuitable site is going to cause more trouble to those trying to get to work on the north circular, and backing on to residents roads. Madeley Road is grid locked most of the mornings evenings and weekends but Ealing Council and those MPs who are not residents of the area have plans for a regular bus route to pass down this road to bring kids to school from the station. This residential road and ALL the other surrounding roads are already suffering and will suffer more than they are already. Meanwhile Caple Manor is a brownfield site - over 13 million has been spent on the house and the new proposed sport facilities - it was good enough for the Falcons Girl school to get permission to open up here so why not The Twyford Trust ? Ealing Council will be paying a premium rate of TAX PAYERS MONEY to the Developers of this site for a landlocked - polluted blighted land - which is a safety and health hazard. As this is development on Metropolitan Land (green belt) The surrounding ecosystem which protects Ealing from the pollutants from this main artery around London is under threat and gone for ever as the proposed school for 1300 non Ealing Central Residents opens up. This part of the North circular was mothballed for over 10years as TFL wanted it to be widened - now its all ok for a school to be opened on this very site !??? EALING is FACING GRID LOCK. |