Prime land that will be lost from educational use in BishopbriggsBearsden are unhappy with PPP schools project but Bishopbriggs has lost a school and an entire site to development!
From a letter in The Herald newspaper...
Part of the problem with this PPP project has been the lack of proper consultation. Mr Anderson states that the council's PPP team has worked with its building partner but makes no mention of working with local groups.
From a public perspective, it appears that a veil of secrecy has been drawn over these proposals and that all reasonable observations are brushed aside as irrelevant or too late to be considered.
And this statement...
East Dunbartonshire states that it is committed to community planning. To quote from its own document, community planning is "most importantly, about ensuring that local people are able to influence the decisions of the organisations that provide their services".
This has, and is, clearly NOT happening.
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David Anderson, East Dunbartonshire Council's Corporate Director - Community, may feel that the sports field provision in the PPP project for Bearsden Academy is adequate, however residents and parents in Bishopbriggs are not so relaxed.
The new Academy in Bishopbriggs was moved from the 'constrained' site near the town centre, to the outskirts in Woodhill. Here we were told there was much more space. Space that would allow greater provision of sports fields.
Now that detailed plans for the school have become available it is clear that this extra space is being sold off for housing and the extra playing fields will be laid on land currently used by the two nearest primary schools. While any improvement in the facilities of either primary school is to be welcomed, it is clear that parents and residents were misled when we were told that the Woodhill site for the Academy would bring with it significant educational benefits such as greater sports field provision.
Perhaps when councillors meet next week to either approve or reject the planning application for the school, they will ask why land on the site is being sold off while pupils are being asked to cross a fast main road to use an undersized primary school playing field.
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David Anderson, East Dunbartonshire Council's Corporate Director - Community, may feel that the sports field provision in the PPP project for Bearsden Academy is adequate, however residents and parents in Bishopbriggs are not so relaxed.
The new Academy in Bishopbriggs was moved from the 'constrained' site near the town centre, to the outskirts in Woodhill. Here we were told there was much more space. Space that would allow greater provision of sports fields.
Now that detailed plans for the school have become available it is clear that this extra space is being sold off for housing and the extra playing fields will be laid on land currently used by the two nearest primary schools. While any improvement in the facilities of either primary school is to be welcomed, it is clear that parents and residents were misled when we were told that the Woodhill site for the Academy would bring with it significant educational benefits such as greater sports field provision.
Perhaps when councillors meet next week to either approve or reject the planning application for the school, they will ask why land on the site is being sold off while pupils are being asked to cross a fast main road to use an undersized primary school playing field.
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