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Topic: Re:Re:Gunnersbury Park - What if.....
Posted by: Alistair Milward
Date/Time: 24/04/13 12:42:00

and thank you too Michael.
When I was part of the West London Free School founding group we were always hunting for sites - Ealing tried to get us interested in the Perfume Factory (office block) at Park Royal can you imagine that! Yes, getting kids on grass is absolutely critical as I said in an earlier thread. I wasn't actually making a distinction between a privately or state educated child really. It was just about The Child and how we are forcing them into schools in Industrial Estates because we haven't got anywhere else! Back in the 70s Ealing saw population decline and so sold two fantastic schools what are now the King Fahd Academy and Japanese schools. Now  I understand that they are facing a huge shortfall in 2015 primary places (as is Hounslow by the way - but apparently worse) that they rather wish they hadn't! If you look into the Acton Town Centre development that's going on right now - Magistrates courts flogged off for flats, primary school playground flogged off to pay for the last revamp and now they are thinking of flogging off the library to pay for the new revamp. Short sightedness if ever there was. Hey ho.

I note that you are pro a trust body to safeguard the park as well. And if I may, I rather suspect the Councils see it as a financial burden as a whole but I take your point that behind closed doors there is probably reference made to the land as an asset.


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TopicDate PostedPosted By
Gunnersbury Park - What if.....23/04/13 12:52:00 Alistair Milward
   Re:Gunnersbury Park - What if.....24/04/13 12:04:00 Anthony Waller
      Re:Re:Gunnersbury Park - What if.....24/04/13 12:25:00 Alistair Milward
   Re:Gunnersbury Park - What if.....24/04/13 12:12:00 Michael Brandt
      Re:Re:Gunnersbury Park - What if.....24/04/13 12:42:00 Alistair Milward
   Re:Gunnersbury Park - What if.....26/04/13 13:32:00 Bela Cunha
      Re:Re:Gunnersbury Park - What if.....26/04/13 14:33:00 Alistair Milward
         Re:Re:Re:Gunnersbury Park - What if.....26/04/13 15:28:00 Hazel Dakers
         Re:Re:Re:Gunnersbury Park - What if.....26/04/13 15:33:00 Bela Cunha
            Re:Re:Re:Re:Gunnersbury Park - What if.....26/04/13 17:04:00 Kath Richardson
               Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Gunnersbury Park - What if.....26/04/13 19:05:00 Michael Brandt
                  Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Gunnersbury Park - What if.....26/04/13 19:57:00 Hazel Dakers
                     Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Gunnersbury Park - What if.....26/04/13 21:22:00 Michael Brandt
                        Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Gunnersbury Park - What if.....04/05/13 12:07:00 John Colwell

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