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Dear Sirs,
While it is a delight that the North School has been “saved”, there are real issues with relocating the farm that will have a significant impact and should be addressed.
There is likely to be a negative effect on not only on the animals but also on the day-to-day running of the school. In addition to this, the relocation will lead to a reduction of the sports fields and have a subsequent impact on the school.
This is on top of the destruction that building houses around the front of the school will have. Not only is Essella Road already a congested T-junction, but the increase of traffic will endanger school children and families in the area both at building time and once the houses are resided in.
Ultimately, when weighing up the issues, I cannot see that this has been a campaign success.
It does appear that Kent County Council are attempting to sell the land to build houses in order to plug the deficit in their own accounts caused by contracting a company at risk. This is their own failing and they should not be effectively taking it out on the school. At the very least the proceeds from selling the land for housing should be more than adequate to relocate the farm effectively, if the development must go through.
There are clearly significant issues of the communications of our councils and Local Education Authorities. Given that the two are essentially the same body, it identifies a huge issue with communications that should be addressed sooner rather than later.
Kind regards,
Kelly-Marie Blundell
Ashford Liberal Democrats
Kennington
Tuesday 6 April 2010
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What an Excellent Letter. Never a true word has been said. I totally agree with your comments, and being a previous resident of Essella road since 1973 to 1985, I have seen the congestion, the accidents and the ''mexiacn stand offs'' with veichles, causing the street to be in total grid lock. There are not enough parking places on the road as it is, and bearing in mind when the building work began and was being carried out on the new make over of the school, builders had nowhere to park, so left there veichles parked on the grass verge on the blind bend. It is a totally pathetic idea to have these houses built on th land. and I totally agree with your comments Kelly-Marie
ReplyDeleteAs ever i totally agree with you, it is a total disgrace that they say the farm has been saved. It hasnt been saved, if it had then why do they need to raise £210,000 to move and rebuild it!! What happens to the animals in the mean time?? If you could see how close the houses were going to be you would be shocked and disgusted. They are going to be on school grounds and looking over our childrens classrooms! The question here is why do they have to build the houses here?? And what are the achieving by doing this. total up roar!!! Thanks to kelly-marie and co for all there support.
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