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School a spacesaver
• JAMES Dunnett writes yet again to attack the Ashmount@Crouch Hill project (Sacrificing open space, May 9).
Despite what he says the project involves no loss of public open space. Nor could it, as Crouch Hill is specially protected metropolitan open land and permission to use it for any purpose must be given by the Mayor of London, now Boris Johnson, and not by Islington Council.
Permission will only be granted because we will be replacing a derelict building and refurbishing another. Not a square metre of space will be lost. All the space to be used by the school is already built on.
Mr Dunnett has had this explained to him several times already. He really ought not to keep repeating this groundless assertion.
He then claims the council misquotes the report on the project that was available in January. I challenge him to demonstrate this. He makes a serious charge. The onus is on him to prove it, or withdraw.
Mr Dunnett attacks the council for saying there is “broad community support” for the project. As two-thirds of the community said they support the project that conclusion seems reasonable to me.
He then guesses at what motivates the parents at Ashmount School to support the move.
I think it was more likely that the parents were motivated by concern for the welfare of their children than, as Mr Dunnett thinks, by questions of council finance.
But whatever their motives, 90 per cent of the parents chose to support moving the school. And that matters. After all, 90 per cent of any group of parents agreeing on anything is unusual.
The current school building is a failure. Time to move on.
DAVID BARRY
Chairman of governors
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