PROTECT TUNSTALL COMMUNITY

#50: - perhaps the school mums would like it!!

Doubt it, most of the pointy elbowed parents only have a six year window in view, then they'll be off demanding something on somebody elses doorstep, leaving us residents with the fallout from yet another piece of ill thought out non planning from our  inept council ( witness the northern distributor route to nowhere ). And yes I would support a southern distributor (planned properly ) that would encourage industry and real jobs ,instead of endless soulless housing estates - DISCUSS !.

However is it really appropriate to relocate Tunstall school to the suggest site?please I ask you all not to lose sight on your vote and make sure your vote is of a overview on a practical merit.
Stop, look ,and contemplate the consequence of...more traffic for mum/ Children,for workers travelling to kent science park,further impact of busy congested roads for local residence,more houses,and not forgetting loss of british agricultural farming land..is it acceptable because on this occasion it appears to be driven by a desire on a business scale , rather than a philanthropist view,that our kcc education have felt it appropriate to allow our country to dismiss our farmers very import function to keep the british farming acconomy thriving!!!!..by allowing this proposal of any kind of develompment... . allowing our country roads to turn into mayhem!!.... why don't we all pull together to keep our school where it is and unite together, to force kcc to increase the build of the school where is currently sits? Why can we not keep everything... a village a village,not create more hazard to our already congested country lanes,protect our british productive farming land and. .. extend the current school at its current location..it really is as simple as this....isnt it?

Just to give anyone in Tunstall or interested parties, let's be honest, this will affect the whole of SITTINGBOURNE
Tunstall Parish Council are to discuss this at their next meeting
Residents , come and tell them what you think NOW
Date 10 February 2014 at 7.40 TUNSTALL VILLAGE HALL

Tunstall Needs You

Sadly your attempt at a joke merely illuminates the truth that  we older and sadly more cynical members of the local community know to be a vision of the future. Out of the mouths of babes etc. !#25: - Re: Re:

 

TOTALLY AGREE unfortunately everything in the UK is done at pace now and is always a jerk reaction. No proper thought for anyone. In this case no thought has been given whatsoever to the local population. In fact actually the school should not be funded from the KCC but as a diocese only project, public money should not be wasted on this project. It is not a state school but a Church of England School. The money should be given to other schools within the area that really do need it.

 

if new schools are going to be built in the
sittingbourne area then it must be where the
majority of people are living on the new
estates around the town.

#51: - Re: perhaps the school mums would like it!!

Are the Tunstall mums trying to rub residents nose in it. (https://www.facebook.com/tunstallmums) whose objective is as follows.

the proposed school is too large for the village, children will be bussed in and the roads will become imposible, blocked with vehicles. This is also prime agricultural land and should remain so.

Write a comment... Many messages state how roads will be more conjested than they are now, I agree, try getting off your own drive along Stockers Hill Road and at the top of Cromers Road in the morning and afternoon during the school run. I understand children do need very often to be driven to village schools, but why add this extra unnecessary burden to all road users when there are suitable alterative areas where schools are needed it would also save the parents the frustating school run.

COMMENTS TO BE IN BY 9.3.2014, if you are against this development let you feelings be made known!
website is http://host1.atriumsoft.com/ePlanningOPSkent/loadFullDetails.do?aplId=57467
Main Details for application:

To submit comments about this planning application, please complete the 'Online Representation Form' Alternatively, please quote the Planning Application Ref No. in an email to planningrepresentations@kent.gov.uk or in a letter to Kent County Council, Planning Applications Group, First Floor, Invicta House, County Hall, Maidstone, Kent ME14 1XX

Application Number KCC/SW/0025/2014 Application Status/Decision Awaiting Decision
Date Registered 31-01-2014
Date Valid 31-01-2014
Council Swale Borough Council
Parish\Town Local Councillor
Planning Case Officer Mrs Lidia Cook Application Type Major Application - Swale Borough
Development Size Major
Applicant KCC
Agent Diocesan Architects
Site Name Land at Tunstall Road, Tunstall, Sittingbourne, Kent
Location Land at Tunstall Road, Tunstall, Sittingbourne, Kent
Proposal

Large expansion would lose the community spirit of a village school

The project will ruin the neighbourhood with the additional traffic this school brings.

I believe KCC needs to demonstrate to residents where the demand comes from. It seems obvious to all the village and town schools are being filled with children travelling from the East of Sittingbournge, rather than from the rural area. In which case any school expansion or new build should ideally be located here in less desirable country side to the North of the A2 and East of Sittingbourne.

#57: - Re: Re: perhaps the school mums would like it!!

The objectives of Tunstall mums to create a community spirit could only happen in the sad world of facebook, real communities evolve over many years,but can sadly be destroyed very quickly by failing to listen to and engage with people  who have the audacity to have a different opinion. The shouts of nimby and child hater which have been levelled, plus a grammatical deconstruction of somebodys honestly held opinion in a leaflet, and subsequent mocking merely add heat and shed no light on a subject dear to us all regardless of opinion.Incidentally if the husband of one of the Tunstall mums was so shocked by a few inaccuracies in said leaflet, he's definiteley in need of getting out a bit.  I have deliberately left a few mistakes in (a signed picture of Harry Styles to any TM who can spot them all).  In the meantime don't forget IT'S NICE TO BE NICE !

The location of the proposed new building is unsafe.An accident waiting to happen.

 

 

lets be sensible to this whole situation, perhaps the country as a whole needs new schools instead of spending every penny we have abroad. However the current parents of Tunstall School did place the children in that school, so why complain.The position of a new school in a country lane opposed by the majority is certainly not democratic. KCC must sit up and listen to the local people who are the majority shareholders in the area not the mums and dads of a FEW. KCC needs to listen to the local residents not the people who do not matter!!  Please beware all local parishes that if this goes ahead YOU to will be closing the VILLAGE school. take note Rodmersham, Borden etc etc

 

#10: The future is bright the future is Tunstall - Observations

How niave and simplistic of you to think that the issue of the increase in traffic through Tunstall would be solved by a new school building.  I have lived here for over 25 years and the cause of the increase in traffic through the village has been brought about by the building of the large estate off Bell Road.  Not so much of a rat run as the most direct road link for the increase in population to reach  Maidstone and the M20 Motorway.  Another example of poorly thought out and unwanted extensive building without proper thought to the attendant necessary infrastructure.  The building of a new school will do absolutely nothing to alleviate that problem only make it much, much worse.  The supposed 'traffic calming' measures through Tunstall that have made it such a nightmare road to drive through let alone walk through should clearly indicate to you that the so called authorities are incapable of working out clear sollutions and will only compound the difficulties in the village.  Other much less damaging and much more useful measures are there to be applied.  It isn't necessary or desirable to take this very destructive route in building an unwanted school which will destroy the nature of the village.

#67: - Re: lets be sensible about this whole situation. Perhaps we do need new shcools however these mums a

'Perhaps the country as a whole needs new schools instead of spending every penny we have abroad.........'.   The need for new schools is about proper repairs and maintenance being made to existing ones.  The issue of new schools for places available is because half of 'abroad' is over here!

#31: where is democracy? -

sod other faiths.  this is britain.

Green areas should be protected - and our villages like Sittingbourne should be kept as such. the school will not serve the village but outlying areas - this means more cars and a higher carbon footprint. I thought this was supposed to be important. we are continuously being told it is by our representative government. so why are schools and shopping centres being built in the middle of nowhere only accessible by car ?

AGAINST. on the grounds that our villages like tunstall and rodmersham need to be protected and not built upon and expanded. our countryside is important. People and education are important too - but if we do not stand up to building on green areas then in the end we will just have one big urban sprawl - no legacy for children at all.

232 supporters from 153 IP addresses so some doubling up and only 25% living in Tunstall. Come on Protect Tunstall - you're going to have to do better than that!

Governments seems to be closing our village schools bit by bit

If this starts out as a 2FE (420 children) what's to stop it from becoming a 3 FE OR 4FE
Then what happens to the other local village schools? All in Tunstall???

We should protect ALL VILLAGE SCHOOLS.

We should leave the village school as it is, thereby maintaining Tunstall Village as we have always known it. We certainly do not want more houses built in the area. Lets protect our Green Belt and Village. The Village school should be for the children who live in the area. Building the school on a Green Belt along with extra houses only leads to increased Traffic in the area. Enough is enough !!