I’m up early in the morning and I’ll be away for the weekend, so apologies for the likely lack of updates over the next day or two. In the meantime, I’d encourage readers to read this article from this week’s Salford Advertiser (also covered in the Salford Star) about the Council’s decision to advertise the land at St George’s High School as suitable for housing development.
This is appalling for two reasons:
Firstly, and most importantly, the school has not closed, and the current proposals have yet to go out for consultation. The fact that this land has now been advertised as suitable for housing shows the callous lack of regard that our Labour Council shows for the consultation process, and Labour’s complete failure to listen to local residents in Walkden and Little Hulton. A real kick in the teeth.
Secondly, when the Building Schools for the Future proposals were first aired, I asked the Council to write to all local residents in the vicinity of St George’s as part of the consultation process, because if the appalling proposals were to go ahead as planned, residents on Parsonage Road and surrounding streets would suddenly find themselves with a housing development opposite rather than a secondary school. The Council said this wasn’t necessary – and now this. Another kick in the teeth for local residents.
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