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Topic: Cuts to Schools Building Programme
Posted by: Adam Gray
Date/Time: 10/07/10 17:09:00

They weren't unsuccessful Alan: they didn't apply!  And that despite knowing of the dreadful state of Elliott since they inherited responsibility for it in 1990.

Even when I was an Elliott pupil in the 1980s (probably the last time there was major work to the building - when they were removing blue asbestos!) the school building was a hindrance to learning: freezing cold in winter, blistering hot in summer.

The state it's in today is many times worse than that.

I should also just add, given that this thread is dominated (rightly) by Elliott, that also lost has been money the council was depending on to amalgamate John Paul II school in Princes Way with Salesian College in Battersea to create a new St John Bosco school on the Salesian site.  If the amalgamation of these two can't go ahead, presumably there will be an ongoing additional cost to council taxpayers of running both - so not even a supposed saving in this case.

St Cecilia's in Sutherland Grove has also lost out as has Paddock (though as these are both schools that have only recently been built the BSF bid was presumably relatively modest).

As for Miss Greening, it's probably best I don't get drawn into commenting given I'm far from her greatest fan, perhaps other to note that in opposition, according to the independent Public Whip website, she voted 97% of the time the way her party whips told her too (the remaining 3% being unwhipped votes!) - and now she's in government she's part of the 100% loyal "payroll vote".

As Cedric Peachey and others have noted, she never once sided with residents against her Tory council on Wandsworth Museum, and was silent on Putney overdevelopment until Stuart King's high profile campaign with residents forced her to say something.

The Tories can of course point to the election result as all the evidence they need to go on treating Putney the way they have but I just don't think that the lack of leadership they're offering our area does us justice.

Ironic, given that in her first election campaign Miss Greening was critical of Tony Colman for towing the Labour line roughly about 2/3rds of the time: massively rebellious in hindsight!


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TopicDate PostedPosted By
Cuts to Schools Building Programme05/07/10 22:08:00 Martine Guy
   Re:Cuts to Schools Building Programme06/07/10 09:44:00 Jim Maddan
      Re:Re:Cuts to Schools Building Programme06/07/10 10:04:00 Martine Guy
         Re:Re:Re:Cuts to Schools Building Programme06/07/10 11:48:00 John Chambers
            Re:Re:Re:Re:Cuts to Schools Building Programme06/07/10 18:06:00 Suzanne Taylor
               Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Cuts to Schools Building Programme06/07/10 18:22:00 Jane Cowley
               Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Cuts to Schools Building Programme06/07/10 18:23:00 Martine Guy
                  Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Cuts to Schools Building Programme06/07/10 21:02:00 Alan Thomson
                     Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Cuts to Schools Building Programme06/07/10 23:04:00 John Chambers
                        Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Cuts to Schools Building Programme07/07/10 20:38:00 Alan Thomson
                           Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Cuts to Schools Building Programme08/07/10 11:20:00 Richard Carter
                              Cuts to Schools Building Programme08/07/10 22:29:00 Rosemary Torrington
                                 Re:Cuts to Schools Building Programme08/07/10 23:27:00 Alan Thomson
                                    Re:Re:Cuts to Schools Building Programme09/07/10 01:58:00 Adam Gray
                                    Cuts to Schools Building Programme12/07/10 09:13:00 Rosemary Torrington
   Re:Cuts to Schools Building Programme08/07/10 23:29:00 Alan Thomson
      Re:Re:Cuts to Schools Building Programme09/07/10 02:13:00 Adam Gray
         Re:Re:Re:Cuts to Schools Building Programme10/07/10 13:14:00 Alan Thomson
            Cuts to Schools Building Programme10/07/10 17:09:00 Adam Gray
               Re:Cuts to Schools Building Programme10/07/10 20:01:00 Alan Thomson
               Re:Cuts to Schools Building Programme10/07/10 23:18:00 Leslie McDonnell
                  Re:Re:Cuts to Schools Building Programme10/07/10 23:59:00 Adam Gray
   Re:Cuts to Schools Building Programme12/07/10 17:19:00 John Hawkes
      Re:Re:Cuts to Schools Building Programme19/07/10 15:49:00 Adam Gray
         Re:Re:Re:Cuts to Schools Building Programme19/07/10 18:41:00 Richard Carter
            Re:Re:Re:Re:Cuts to Schools Building Programme20/07/10 00:39:00 Adam Gray
               Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Cuts to Schools Building Programme20/07/10 15:09:00 John Hawkes
                  Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Cuts to Schools Building Programme20/07/10 16:10:00 Suzanne Taylor
                     Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Cuts to Schools Building Programme20/07/10 17:07:00 John Hawkes
                     Cuts to Schools Building Programme20/07/10 17:10:00 Adam Gray
                        Re:Cuts to Schools Building Programme20/07/10 17:25:00 Suzanne Taylor
                           Re:Re:Cuts to Schools Building Programme20/07/10 18:03:00 Adam Gray
                              Re:Re:Re:Cuts to Schools Building Programme20/07/10 18:24:00 Suzanne Taylor
                                 Re:Re:Re:Re:Cuts to Schools Building Programme20/07/10 19:50:00 Adam Gray
                                    Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Cuts to Schools Building Programme20/07/10 20:55:00 Suzanne Taylor
                                       Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Cuts to Schools Building Programme22/07/10 18:51:00 Jane Eades
                           Re:Re:Cuts to Schools Building Programme20/07/10 18:24:00 John Hawkes
                              Re:Re:Re:Cuts to Schools Building Programme20/07/10 22:20:00 Alan Thomson
                                 Re:Re:Re:Re:Cuts to Schools Building Programme22/07/10 13:12:00 Adam Gray
                                    Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Cuts to Schools Building Programme25/07/10 20:47:00 Martine Guy

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