Newsham Park - Green School built on destruction of Trees and Hedges
Cllr Steve Radford
Liberal Party
41 Sutton Street
Tuebrook
Liverpool
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Dear Editor
Letter for Publication
Last week the Prime Minister made a staged appearance at a new academy school in Newsham Park, Liverpool and proclaimed his commitment to Green issues
Whilst the new school with its professed interest in ecology is welcome, there is an underlying hypocrisy from the very foundation of the school
Firstly the school was built upon an open and established Victorian Park. Trees and hedgerows were destroyed to make way for the school to be built
Secondly this modernist building was imposed onto a Victorian Conservation Area.
The building stands out like a lego land giant space ship destroying the Victorian outlook of Newsham Park
If the Bishop of Liverpool and Prime Minister had a clear commitment to green issues they would have had the school built on one of the extensive number of brownfield sites in the Kensington/Fairfield /Stanley area of Liverpool.
No wonder the Prime Minister would not allow journalists or residents to ask questions.
For less than a quarter of a mile away on Prescot Drive and Prescot Road, at the other end of Newsham Park he could have seen how this negligent Lib Dem council ,supported by the ODPM, is deliberately emptying large houses out and leaving a zone of dereliction at a time when our housing waiting lists have soared from 7,500 to 11,300 just in the last two years alone
Cllr Steve Radford
Liberal Party Councillor
Deputy Chair of Liverpool Housing Scrutiny Committee
