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Fears Telford faith school will be too small
Thursday 5th January 2012, 7:00PM GMT.
An action group has been set up over plans to build a faith school in Telford, with residents concerned it wouldn’t be a new school but rather the moving of an old one.
A public meeting has now been organised for next week so residents can hear more details about the scheme to create a Christian academy, which would incorporate the Blessed Robert Johnson Catholic College.
Residents have formed an action group in Priorslee over concerns that the scheme will not provide a new school for the area, just a relocation of an existing school.
The Building Schools for the Future programme will see six schools bulldozed and rebuilt under £200 million plans which will transform education across Telford & Wrekin.
Alan Bowyer, a spokes- man for the action group, said: “We are concerned there will not be enough capacity at the new school for the children of Priorslee to attend.
“We are worried because we know there will be additional housing in Priorslee and families will want to send their children to school, but they will have to take them all over Telford. It is illogical.”
A meeting will be held at Redhill Primary School, Gatcombe Way, Priorslee, on Wednesday, January 11, at 6.30pm. It is hoped the scheme’s project director will attend to give more details about the proposal.
Mr Bowyer said they formed the action group to ‘engage with the council over the details’ of the scheme.
“There are major issues, but we cannot say we are totally against it because all the details are not known to us.”
Mr Bowyer said one of the major issues was an increase in traffic and access to the land, which is adjacent to Salisbury Avenue and behind Ely Close.
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