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Reprieve for South West London Waldorf school
LONDON (NNA) – The Waldorf Steiner School of South West London, which was threatened with eviction from its school premises in April, has been granted a reprieve at least until 2009. Following a meeting between the school and Wandsworth Council, which owns and manages the land on which the school is located, the council agreed to allow the school to stay in the premises until next year. The school, meanwhile, has asked for that period to be extended until 2010. “The lease was due to expire in April, and the local council have said they’ll extend it until 2009, and we’ve asked them to extend it until the summer of 2010,” Philip Martyn, a trustee of the school, told NNA. The school, which recently received a good report from the schools inspectorate Ofsted, is being forced to close as part of a land offset deal under which the council controversially plans to build five-a-side football pitches on a significant section of common land on Tooting Common in return for greater access to the Woodfield Recreation Ground, the site on which the school is located. Martyn said the school was hopeful that Wandsworth would grant an extension to 2010: “They can give us an extension up to 2010 without upsetting any development plans because development won’t start until then.” The council has argued that the school was well aware from the beginning that the lease would expire in April, but Martyn, said that the understanding of the school had always been that the lease would be extended. As a result, the announcement last October that the lease would be terminated had come as a shock and surprise. The school hopes that developments over the next year, or possibly two, will produce a solution. If the school is forced to move, it would be faced with severe difficulties in finding new premises: “This is London: it’s expensive and it’s difficult,” Martyn said. END/nna/cva Item: 080121-01EN Date: 21 January 2008 Copyright 2008 News Network Anthroposophy Limited. All rights reserved. See: www.nna-news.org/copyright/ More NNA reports at: www.nna-news.org/en/ |
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