PROTECT TUNSTALL COMMUNITY

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#161 Further to the proposed location

2014-02-12 14:45

One should also query the proposed location. Masking this as an expansion of Tunstall school is I believe a little misguided. There has been zero housing growth in this area for decades. It is surrounded by farming land that is used to produce profitable crops. Why does it need a bigger school? Why not put the school where the new estates are? This would cut cross town traffic (and we all know how bad Sittingbourne traffic is), it would encourage children to walk to school thus promoting a number of benefits to the community.

Putting the school at an end of town where there isn't a new increase in population is highly questionable.

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#167 Re: Further to the proposed location

2014-02-13 09:33:51

#161: Choose a nickname - Further to the proposed location

I am fascinated to know how so many of you have become such experts on the traffic movements of the people who live in Sittingbourne. The majority of traffic that comes along Tunstall Road does so between 07.00 and 08.00 weekday mornings - this is borne out by the traffic survey that was commissioned and paid for out of tax payers money, by Tunstall Parish Council. Traffic at this hour is nothing to do with people taking their children across town to school but more to do with people using the road as a rat run to avoid the Key Street and Stockbury roundabouts on the A249. For your information, the vast majority of families who live on the Sonora Fields estate find places for their primary school aged children at Bobbing primary School.