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from the Hull Daily Mail/East Riding Mail Saturday, May 17
An information and awareness event has been arranged for residents living close to the Princess Elizabeth Playing Fields. Sir Henry Cooper School is one of the first schools under review as part of the city’s £400m Building Schools For The Future (BSF) project and the proposal is to close the school and to open a new academy on Princess Elizabeth Playing Fields in 2012.
Some residents have expressed concerns about issues including traffic, flooding and loss of playing field provision. In order to address these concerns, provide further information on BSF and to hear residents’ views, a public drop-in event has been arranged for Wednesday, from 4pm to 7pm. The event will take place in the Citysafe mobile unit on the car park at the south east corner of the playing fields.
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DonnaStocks Submitted 3 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!
I think its a bad idea to move the school from where it is. Theres plenty of space around orchard park for it to be re-built.My son wont be attending when he leaves Parkstone that is a fact!could someone perhaps start a petition about this issue?
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YourMail-Heather Submitted 28 days ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!
‘Plans will increase risk of flooding’
from the Hull Daily Mail/East Riding Mail Friday, August 1
Plans to build a new secondary school on a north Hull playing field have run into opposition from nearby residents.
Over 200 people living close to the Princess Elizabeth playing fields have already lodged official letters of objection against the proposal.
In addition, a 257-name petition has been submitted to Hull City Council.
The council has earmarked the land off Beverley Road for one of four new academy schools under its flagship £400m Building Schools For The Future programme.
But worried residents say any development on what is already a floodwater storage site would be folly.
Campaigner Doreen Richardson, of Tudor Drive, said residents’ properties would be put at risk if the fields were built on.
She spoke ahead of the scheme going before the council’s planning committee next week. Mrs Richardson said: “Next Wednesday is D-Day for us.
“We have had so much backing to stop these proposals that the decision was put back a month.
“There have been so many criticisms, complaints and objections that officers could not process the details in time for the July planning committee meeting.
“Our objections are multi-layered.
“Firstly, we will lose a beautiful green space that is enjoyed by many local residents. It would be such a shame to see it go.
“We are also concerned about the amount of traffic that would be added to an already busy road network.
“And, as far as I am concerned, the most significant objection is the fact the whole field acts as a drainage area when we have heavy rain.
“The field was under about nine inches of water in last June’s deluge. If the area is built on, that water will go into and across neighbouring properties.
“The plans show the school and its buildings will be raised 12 inches so it won’t be at risk, but where will all the water go?
“Last year, the water from the field didn’t go until the drain started dropping in level, so it will only be made worse.
“There are proposals to house some of the water underground and then pump it into the Barmston Drain.
“However, the Barmston Drain can hardly contain all the water it currently has to deal with, so pumping more in just seems ridiculous to me.
“Rather than relying on the natural drainage of the land, we will have to contend with the storage tanks being sufficiently large, a pump being able to cope with the volume of water falling from the sky, the drain having enough capacity to cope, the sluice gates being open and the River Humber being at low-tide.
“Human error also has to be factored into that.” A report for next week’s meeting says there have been no objections from the Environment Agency or Yorkshire Water.
Under the proposals, the new 1,300-pupil school will replace the nearby Sir Henry Cooper School in Orchard Park.
If given the go-ahead, the design of the building will be flood-proof, with the remaining playing fields acting as a floodwater store during periods of heavy rain.
Hull City Council www.hullcc.gov.uk
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YourMail-Heather Submitted 22 days ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!
Back to the drawing board
from the Hull Daily Mail/East Riding Mail Thursday, August 7
Plans for one of Hull’s new academy schools have been thrown into chaos. City planners have refused to grant permission for a school to be built on Princess Elizabeth playing fields in north Hull.
Proposals to build on that site had formed part of Hull’s £400m Building Schools for the Future (BSF) programme.
The decision means officials will now have to go back to the drawing board.
The plans were rejected because it would mean the park would no longer be available to the public.
Nigel Richardson, director of children and young people’s services, told the Mail he was disappointed with the decision, as the site was an important part of the overall strategy.
Under the proposals, the new 1,300-pupil school would replace the nearby Sir Henry Cooper School in Orchard Park.
It will be sponsored principally by the University of Hull with Wilberforce College and Wyke College as its co-sponsors.
Mr Richardson said: “I would be lying if I said I wasn’t disappointed.
“We remain committed to offering education in the city and a Northern Academy sponsored by the University of Hull and Wyke and Wilberforce Colleges on the Princess Elizabeth site was an important part of the overall strategy.
“But the planning committee is an important part of the process.
“It has turned the application down, so we as a partnership will have to look at it again.”
Plans to build on the green space also ran into opposition from nearby residents.
More than 200 people living close to the site lodged official letters of objection against the proposal.
A 257-name petition was also submitted to Hull City Council.
Dave McBobb, Beverley ward councillor, spoke against the application at yesterday’s meeting of the planning committee.
He said: “The Princess Elizabeth playing fields are loved by residents of north Hull, like West Park, Pearson Park and East Park are by their locals.
“There would have be no viable compensation for the loss of green space if the plans went ahead.”
The council had earmarked the land off Beverley Road for one of three new academy schools.
Pickering High School, in west Hull, will be replaced on the same site and become the Sirius Academy and from September, Archbishop Thurstan School, in east Hull, will be known as Archbishop Sentamu Academy.
Speaking after the planning meeting, Councillor Mike Ross, portfolio holder for education, said: “Given the decision of the planning committee to reject the Princess Elizabeth site, it clearly now means further work will have to be done on exploring the next steps.
“We are committed to providing the best possible education for Hull’s children and will do everything we can to make this happen.
“As part of this we will seek to work with everybody we can to help in these aims.
"We are still committed to working with the university and the two colleges on this academy and further discussions will of course include our partners in terms of where we go now.”
Building Schools for the Future www.bsf.gov.uk
Hull City Council www.hullcc.gov.uk
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