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Anger as pupils lose out on £250k ad cash
THOUSANDS of pounds made from an advertising hoarding outside an old school building should go towards education and not into the council’s coffers, opposition councillors have said.
They are angry because pupils are still being taught in a dilapidated school building in Paddington a year after a controversial academy school should have taken over.
But the promised £30-million state-of-the-art building was delayed after contractors pulled the plug on the project and more than 1,200 pupils are being taught in their old sixth form building in North Wharf Road.
The council is making £250,000 a year from the hoarding outside the sixth form building. But because the pupils are officially part of the academy – and so outside of the Town Hall’s control – Tory councillros say the money should not go to them.
Opposition councillors asked whether the funds gained from an advertising hoarding outside the site could be spent on improving conditions for pupils.
Queen’s Park Councillor Barrie Taylor said: “You would have hoped that because the £250,000 was earned from a hoarding on one of the temporary school sites – and was part of the previous North Westminster Community School’s budget – that the council would acknowledge the need for greater investment in this transfer period, not merely pocket the proceeds to subsidise the general coffers of the council tax.” |
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