Sunday, January 08, 2006
Super School
Super School NIMBYs protest
In September 2005 I reiterated my belief that the most sensible of the original three options outlined for the Borough's new "super school" was the current site at Brinkburn. The Council is now making a third proposal for the site after losing the arguement for Temple Memorial Park and Chuter Ede, this third proposal is to build within the existing footprint of King George School in Nevison Avenue, and predictably the NIMBY's (not in my back yard) are out in protest again.
Some of the advantages of building at Brinkburn are that it is central for the area that most of it's pupils will reside in, there are few major roads to cause safety concerns, it has sufficient land (which is not "green belt) to build upon, the new school can probably be built on the current sports fields before the existing school is demolished, it has a decent sized car park, local residents are used to the large scale educational establishment on their door step.
The disadvantages are that financing the project may be fraught with a few more difficulties which may require more imaginative approaches to central government and the Sports Council.
I am dismayed that this was never considered as the "preferred option" in the first place, but officers were determined to append the school on to the leisure centre at Temple Memorial Park, a proposal which would always be greeted with huge protests.
Perhaps it is time to start firming up a scheme to build at Brinkburn, it will be seen as a compromise after the public had turned down three options, but as I have stated before, with the correct level of leadership this need not have been the case.
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