HA9 doesn't not need or want this school
From "Consultation on relocation of Islamia Primary School from September 2024"
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Reasons relocating the school to HA9 / Strathcona is a totally unsuitable:
- Already excellent and undersubscribed primary schools in very close proximity
- Strathcona Road is extremely narrow and too small to accommodate the influx of extra traffic, leading to my next point..
- Original site of the school is the other side of the borough, 6 miles and 30 mins drive away.
- It's sheer hypocrisy for Brent Council to have inflicted the disastrous LTN system upon HA9 - apparently because we have so much local traffic - but then to also want to site a new, unnecessary unwanted school right in the same area.
- Unfeasible that many young children will be able to use public transport assuming they live near the Queens Park site: it is 30-45 minutes away by train or over 1 hour by bus.
- Many of the school's own parents / pupils don't want to be relocated to such a distant site, see petition at: https://democracy.brent.gov.uk/mgEPetitionDisplay.aspx?ID=236&RPID=0&HPID=0
- Lastly but importantly, I don't believe it's right for any school to segregate itself by any religion. Why in a modern society should we want our children to not be taught equality and multiculturalism?
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