UPDATE (Islington Gazette interview with head Laura Birkett 19 June ) The Islington Tribune reports that: 'The DfE has entered into a funding agreement with the private company behind Whitehall Park School... previous estimates by the board of Ashmount School put the cost of demolition and rebuilding at around £12.5m.'
Showing posts with label Ashmount School. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ashmount School. Show all posts
Monday, 23 June 2014
Sunday, 16 February 2014
Islington votes to give free school half of disputed land
UPDATE: Evening Standard - The middle-class parent’s dream school and a battle for an asbestos-riddled site
From the Islington Tribune:
'A PLAN to divide the old Ashmount School site in two and keep half for housing was formally adopted by the ruling Labour Executive on Thursday, despite a last-minute appeal by some residents to keep the whole site for educational purposes.
From the Islington Tribune:
'A PLAN to divide the old Ashmount School site in two and keep half for housing was formally adopted by the ruling Labour Executive on Thursday, despite a last-minute appeal by some residents to keep the whole site for educational purposes.
Monday, 10 February 2014
Primary School moves... free school moves in
From the Islington Gazette:
http://www.islingtongazette.co.uk/news/hornsey_rise_free_school_set_for_ashmount_site_is_already_oversubscribed_say_dfe_1_3286610
'Whitehall Park Free School looks set to open at the former Ashmount Primary School site, in Hornsey Lane...' (Ashmount Primary was moved to Crouch Hill).
http://www.islingtongazette.co.uk/news/hornsey_rise_free_school_set_for_ashmount_site_is_already_oversubscribed_say_dfe_1_3286610
'Whitehall Park Free School looks set to open at the former Ashmount Primary School site, in Hornsey Lane...' (Ashmount Primary was moved to Crouch Hill).
Monday, 4 November 2013
Islington freeschool backers' no-show at meeting
http://www.islingtontribune.com/news/2013/nov/ashmount-argument-%E2%80%98-choice-between-housing-and-free-school%E2%80%99
Islington Tribune: More than 100 parents packed into the Christ Church Hall in Crouch Hill to hear fierce arguments for and against the school, which would be called Whitehall Park and operate independently of local authority control But the companies behind it – Swiss-based Bellevue Education and the Place Group – failed to send a representative. They have also been criticised for only publicising a consultation on the proposed school to parents who had signed up on their website.
Islington Tribune: More than 100 parents packed into the Christ Church Hall in Crouch Hill to hear fierce arguments for and against the school, which would be called Whitehall Park and operate independently of local authority control But the companies behind it – Swiss-based Bellevue Education and the Place Group – failed to send a representative. They have also been criticised for only publicising a consultation on the proposed school to parents who had signed up on their website.
Monday, 28 October 2013
Council anti free school squatter conspiracy
From the Islington Tribune: http://www.islingtontribune.com/news/2013/oct/ashmount-squatters-are-%E2%80%98not-against-free-school-%E2%80%A6if-it%E2%80%99s-really-free%E2%80%99
"THE Town Hall is being accused of deliberately attempting to scupper a planned free school by removing security at former Ashmount primary in Archway, resulting in more than 100 squatters moving in.
Councillor Joe Caluori, Labour executive member for children and families said: “At a time of severe government funding cuts, the council could not afford to keep paying in the region of £40,000 a year to maintain a vacant building which may well be taken from us by the Department for Education.
"Nor do we wish to have to pay for an eviction action, which can be avoided by the co-operation of those on-site.
“The former Ashmount School site remains vacant because of the spectre of a free school hanging over it.
"Despite having 18,000 people on our housing waiting lists we are not allowed to proceed with plans for affordable housing on the site but instead have to wait for the government to decide whether they intend to give the site to private companies pushing for a free school we neither want nor need.
“We have no need for a new school in the north of the borough, but a desperate need for family homes.”
"THE Town Hall is being accused of deliberately attempting to scupper a planned free school by removing security at former Ashmount primary in Archway, resulting in more than 100 squatters moving in.
Councillor Joe Caluori, Labour executive member for children and families said: “At a time of severe government funding cuts, the council could not afford to keep paying in the region of £40,000 a year to maintain a vacant building which may well be taken from us by the Department for Education.
"Nor do we wish to have to pay for an eviction action, which can be avoided by the co-operation of those on-site.
“The former Ashmount School site remains vacant because of the spectre of a free school hanging over it.
"Despite having 18,000 people on our housing waiting lists we are not allowed to proceed with plans for affordable housing on the site but instead have to wait for the government to decide whether they intend to give the site to private companies pushing for a free school we neither want nor need.
“We have no need for a new school in the north of the borough, but a desperate need for family homes.”
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