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The south loses out
• IT appears that there has been some political spin put on the opening of the new secondary school in Camden.
The people of Camden have made it clear the new school is needed in the south of the borough and not the north. However, their campaign to highlight this appears to have been given lip-service and not much else.
Moreover, not even the children of the exceptional Frank Barnes school had any effect on the executive and their school now looks doomed. It will be moved elsewhere, however, this will have an adverse effect on many of the children. There is no need to put a new secondary school on this site.
In addition, although I applaud the call for more housing, for example, on the Temperance Hospital site; I am concerned that unless these properties are for housing the elderly or people that are never going to have children, this is going to put even more pressure on parents that live south of Camden Town.
Why is it that a new secondary school could not be built on the site of the Temperance or even the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson hospitals?
A new school is urgently needed in the south of the borough and this problem is not going to disappear. Camden has to be more visionary than it has been so far and a search for a site for another secondary school should already be underway.
DF GOWERS
Broxwood Way, NW8
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