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GE PARK SCHOOL RESIDENTS REACT

After some years of denying the Park school is needed. We have a will be easier to impose a com-
need for a primary school in right to be involved in the pulsory purchase order on Mrs.
Grange Park, the decision by location." Rummings."
Wiltshire County Council to County Let Land Go However this suggestion is
build one has been welcomed. denied by Mr. Chris Perraton of
IWO But there is a rising tide of protest Mrs. Rummings is upset by the the County Education Depart-
that the school will be in the pressure on her but welcomes ment. "At a public meeting to
wrong place, there will be access the support of local people. "A explain the building of Windmill
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1010Pwk and road safety problems and the few years ago Wiltshire County Hill School in late 1986 we heard
last green field between the Council had an option on land at Grange Park people say they
BEStIR houses and Lydiard park will be the end of Mulcaster Avenue wanted a school in their area; we
- consumed. next to Greendown, but let it go are trying to provide one. On
A report to the Property Ser- for housing. I object to my field balance we believe the Hook
vices sub-Committee recom- being used because it's not the Street site best; who owns the
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mended that land belonging to best place for a school. There's a land is not a consideration."
c' better site off Hay Lane.
retired farmer Mrs. Joan
Rummings, off Hook Street, on "Now they want a site, I think
the extreme western boundary ot they have a responsibility to get Residents of Grange Park
Grange Park, be compulsorily back some of the land earmarked are invited to a public
purchased. A decision to pro- for housing." meeting at Greendown
ceed was deferred. Residents in King Henry Drive Community School on
The publicity around Mrs. are backing Mrs. Rummings.
'S Thursday 11th February,
Rumming's refusal to sell has They claim the proposed 2.7 acre
angered Freshbrook vicar Rev. site at the end of their road is 7.30 p.m. to discuss the
\ ' Tony Price. "She is being cast as need for a primary school
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shbrook-J totally unsuitable. On behalf of
the villain, but people do not the residents who have organised in Grange Park.
realise that she has close contact a petition, Dermot Elworthy
with West Swindon schools and said, "The traffic congestion in
STANLEY Parents of children
pupils often visit her farm. It is what is a narrow cul-de-sac will
\l.. nonsense to build another school entering school from
Freshbrook create great hazards.
v,itoge on the western side of the area 1989/90 and people who
Cent,' "The other site is more suit-
Freshbrook where Freshbrook and Windmill want to see a school in
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St hoot v able but as it's owned by Brad-
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Hill already are. There is a much leys, it will be more difficult Grange Park are urged to
better site on the Rectory field for the County to buy it. It
attend.
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- off Hay Lane, which is more
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