| Topic: | Re:proposed new school - bottom of barclays site | |
| Posted by: | Phil Kay | |
| Date/Time: | 04/07/18 14:33:00 |
| It really does seem that there is a lack of consultation on new schools - names, locations, nodal points - in the Borough. However, I don't yet fully understand some of the points made in this thread. Tessa T writes: "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." And: "Bringing children out of catchment..." Where is this information from? The new institution will be a maintained school and its admissions' criteria are listed here: https://adalovelace.org.uk/attending-our-school/admissions Apart from looked after children, some specialist scholarship places and siblings, pupils will be allocated according to distance: "Distance is measured in a straight line from home to St Peter’s Church, Mount Park Road, Ealing W5 2RU, using the Local Authority’s computerised mapping system". Since Ealing Green High School closed down (in 1993?), there have been no state high schools in the W5 or W13 post code areas, so there'll be a lot of people pleased to see a new school and I doubt anyone from Hounslow or Chiswick will live anywhere near close enough to get a place at Ada Lovelace. Chris writes: "there`s a huge health and safety issue with placing the school in this corner of a large site jammed up against the North Circular Road...hundreds of students will need to cross this busy road every day resulting in traffic accidents and worse...I still don`t understand why this expensive new school is not being built on the old pavilion site at the top of the hill away from the car pollution and traffic I don't know about the air-borne pollutants but why would the danger of crossing the North Circular Road differ depending on where on the old Barclay's site the new school is built? |