Comedy at the cornerHOUSE
Omid Djalili
From the BB1 ‘Omid Djalili Show’
WORK IN PROGRESS
is live at the cornerHOUSE on Thursday 14th July
Tickets Only £10
to book Tickets go to – www.outsidetheboxcomedy.co.uk
Oakhill school meeting 14th June
I attended the meeting for the presentations but had to leave early to get to EBRRA’s committee meeting. I am indebted to Graham Goldspring, who stayed for the duration, for his observations. Links to the documents in pdf format can be found on the new page ‘Hospital site/school’ by clicking on the link at the head of this home page.
Relevant documents on the RBK website can be accessed here.
Re: Meeting at Dysart School, 14 June 2011 – two bids for running the new school
Points from the meeting;
- Construction of the school and health centre will start in August
- There will be provision for 24 special needs children – not 16 as previously indicated
- The Surbiton Health education Trust existence was new to me. I suspect that this was a driver for making the development a joint application
- This trust is bidding on the basis of providing a school which has NHS input to support the curriculum in diet and nutrition, health and well being, PE and sport with NHS advisers also working in the health centre.
- Both bidders, in a response to a question from me regarding annual funding and prioritising the funding of teaching resources, stated that the annual funding will be state provided and that the appointed head and senior staff would be responsible for the deployment of resources. No indication as to how much of the state funding would be used to pay a trust, which is a profit making concern, its fees for running the school.
- I was more in tune with the Surbiton Trust as they talked about how the school would be managed. Lilac were more concerned about stating their experience nationwide.
- The Surbiton trust talked about the school being self sustaining, with solar panels ( was this on the planning application does anyone know?) and forming the habit of walking or cycling to school as part of an eco-drive.
- The school would be a full community location to be used for sport and activities 7 days a week (yes – including Sundays) and every evening outside school teaching times. (So much for a noise assessment claiming there to be no impact on the local community).
- I still fail to see why there is a need to pay money to hand over the management of the school to a trust instead of it being LA led.
I attach some documents relating to the two bids. I also found the ‘response booklet’ pdf file on the RBK website. It invites people to come to the meeting on 14 June.
Our house did not have this leaflet delivered to us. Did anyone else receive it?
Maybe readers should enquire as to whether these have been distributed or is this ‘consultation’ again relying on people finding it by accident online or if they happen to go to the library?
The closing date for comments is 15 July.
Traffic lights Hook Road
Temporary traffic signals in Hook Road, Surbiton
Due to Thames Water’s roller breaking down on site, the temporary traffic signals on Hook Road haven’t actually been removed at lunch time. They are going to be removed from site now to ease peak time traffic but they will be put back on tomorrow, off-peak, to complete the reinstatement of the carriageway.
School meeting tonight
from Graham Goldsping of OADRA
There is a public meeting tonight (7 p.m.) at Dysart School. At this meeting the 2 bidders for running the new school will be presenting their plans and it would be good if we had some of us going to it to represent the local community.
One bidder is Surbiton Education health trust (SEHT). This is made up of Kingston Council, NHS Kingston, SW London Health Partnerships and Your Health Care – i.e NHS would be part responsible for the school? Not what we were told during so called consultation.
All quiet in Surbiton Hill?
It seems as though things have quietened down somewhat in the last couple of weeks. However some issues just don’t go away.
- There’s a Planning meeting on Wednesday at which matters relating to the CNM sites will be raised.
- The Oakhill school issue is still definitely not dead; and
- The ward is still represented on the Council by a resident and taxpayer in Elmbridge!
Ken Peay retiring from SRA
Photo from Surrey Comet.
Nick and I were very sad not to be able to pay our tribute to Ken at the Southborough RA AGM.
In my case I had worked with him via that Committee for 12 years and I briefly worked with him on the Committee of the Kingston Society as well.
During all that time I was always impressed by his gentle humour and the vast knowledge he brought to bear on all the issues he dealt with. His local concerns ranged widely from the filter beds on Portsmouth Road, to the prevention of Southborough being turned into a commuter car park – and saving the residents from having to pay for parking permits into the bargain! On this and on other issues he looked for and received the support of the three ward councillors. We never knew whether he voted for us or not – we never asked questions like that! The point was that his opinion was always well grounded in fact and in planning law and sensible people listened attentively when he spoke. He is the only person I ever knew to get the Planning Inspectorate to agree that he was right and they were wrong.
Some years ago he and I went to look at the exhibition mounted by Sunrise for their proposed 70-odd bedroom development at the Langley Avenue/Upper Brighton Road junction. That was the start of the long campaign – mostly successful – to prevent anything so huge from looming over that area of Surbiton.
It was a privilege to work with Ken. Southborough will miss him, though I shall be surprised indeed if it has heard the last of one of the greatest servants it has ever had.
There’s a good article on Ken Peay in the Comet. Click on the link to read it.
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