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Rival parents
fight over school run
PARENTS who swarmed the steps of the Town Hall last night
(Wednesday) demanding the right to drive their children to school
were confronted by a rival group of environmental protesters
who support the reduction of traffic.
Schools Travel Action Group (STAG), who organised the 200-strong
protest, angrily confronted the rival faction – whose banners
read ‘Children need fresh air and exercise’ and ‘Well
done Camden! No more school pollution vouchers’.
Delegates from the parents group Stag – which counts celebrity
chef Jamie Oliver and Star Wars actor Ewan McGregor among it’s
members – then went inside to hand over 1,500 signatures
to a full council meeting, and demanded that Labour reinstate
parking permits for parents.
But despite jeers from the public gallery, the council’s
school’s chief Councillor Lucy Anderson refused to reverse
the phasing out of permits, introduced by the council five years
ago.
Cllr Anderson told the delegates: “I am deeply, deeply
unsympathetic. I spend a large amount of money on pay and display
– we are the only borough that provides parking concessions,
and there are over 100 pay and display meters in Fitzjohn’s.”
Such is the controversy of the school run that a further two
delegations followed Stag’s, including a committee of resident’s
associations and Luca Salice, the Chair of Governors at Torriano
Junior School.
They were both against parents driving their children to school. |
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