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Islington Tribune - LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Published: 28 March 2008
 
Lazy way to fund work

• IT is true that Islington Council has agreed to sell part of Hugh Myddelton Primary School playground and build flats on it.
This is in order to “pay for” repairs to the school.
I would like to point out that I voted against this decision, because of the loss of part of the playground (which is not permitted under National Planning Guidance), and also because it was not at all clear that other ways of funding the repairs could not be found.
The truth of the matter is that selling part of the playground is the Lib Dem council’s lazy way of finding the money to pay for repairs.
The chairman of south area planning committee, Lib Dem councillor George Allan, managed to convince himself that the part of the playground to be sold was “beyond use”, because a few tree roots had grown through it. He then waved it through, in spite of numerous objections.
When the flats get built, the school will have lost part of its playground, will be seriously (and I believe, unacceptably) overlooked by the flats, and the neighbourhood will also lose three fine London plane trees which grace the end of the site facing onto St John Street.
CLLR MARTIN KLUTE
Labour, St Peters ward

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