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Ryton, Crookhill, Stella, Crawcrook, Greenside, Clara Vale

Let commonsense prevail

on new school

Focus  Autumn 2010

Schools toget 20mph

zonesSAFETY around loca

schools is set to improv

following a decision to

bring in 20mph zones.All schools in Gateshead are t

have the zones introduced over thcoming years.

The Focus teams in Crawcroo

& Greenside and in Ryton

Crookhill and Stella hav

welcomed the decision.

“We have been asking fo

Twenty’s Plenty advisory notice

outside our schools for severa

years,” said Councillor Dere

Anderson.

“We look forward to the zone

coming to Crookhill Primary an

St Mary & St Thomas at Stella.”

In Crawcrook the zone fo

Emmaville will be extended alonMain Street.

 Advisory SignsThe zone for St Agne

School on its new site in

Kepier Chare is causin

concern for loca

residents.

Your Lib Dem  Focus Team ha

suggested that, due to the windin

nature of the estate’s road

“Twenty’s Plenty” advisor

notices without the expense of

full set of road signs and thstatutory accompanying roa

humps would be just as effective

Extended zoneYour local Councillors in

Greenside are requestin

that the zone fo

Greenside Primary b

extended .

They want it to cover the junction

of  Rockwood Hill Road and th

Lead Rd, the junction at the Lea

Road and Spen Road, the entranc

to the road leading off to CharlieFrank & Nelson Streets, and th

Woodside Lane/ Lead Roa

 junction.

esidents’ survey shows people want school to remain at current Ryton site 

ESSURE is

unting on

eshead Council to

k down on

posals to close

n the existing

on Comprehensive

ool site and move it

new location nextthe Ryton/

wcrook By-pass.rveys of residentsed out since last year,h included one by localal Democrats, showed

whelming support foring the school at itsnt site.

The lateL a b o u rGovernmentagreed to thefunding tobuild a newschool justbefore theG e n e r a lElection!

teshead Council isng Hookergate School

pupils are beingferred to Ryton.

t Labour’s proposals to

move from the existing Rytonsite have met with a hostileresponse from local residents.

“We asked residents whatthey thought of the plans tobuild in the greenbelt onWoodside Lane next to the By-Pass,” said Cllr DerekAnderson.

“The vast majority of responses were very clear -people want the existing site

chools’ cash saved from squeezeNDING on schools is

ng protected by the

lition government

pite big cuts being

de elsewhere to

ance the budget.

uts to public spending are

needed to get the deficitunder control - last year theLabour Governmentborrowed £157 billion - a

quarter of the cash theyspent.

Everyone knows thatborrowing at that level

cannot continue. Even so, the

Coalition agreed that schools

will be protected from cuts.

And there will also be £16billion to invest in school

buildings over the next 4

years.

“We are arguing strongly

for some of this money to be

invested in refurbishing

Ryton on the existing site,”

said ”Councillor NoelRippeth, Leader of the Lib

Dem Opposition on

Gateshead Council.

Thorpe School occupied the current

site of Ryton School from the 1880s.

Let’s keep the school at its current

location as well!

to be retained and for theschool to be refurbished.”

Sally Danys, who also

helped co-ordinate thesurvey, said, “The finaldecision has not been madeby the Council on whether tobuild a new school next to theBy-Pass or refurbish theexisting school on the samesite.

“We hope that common

sense prevails and the

Council opts to improve the

existing site.

“Liberal DemocratCouncillors are pressing forthat”.

Ministers have put

school building projects on

hold whilst a review takes

place to decide which can

go ahead.

r Derek

derson

Sally Danys and Councillors Noel

and Ione Rippeth are calling for

Ryton School to remain at its present

site.