Thread by @Andrewwood17

Tonight Wapping Dock secondary school got final planning permission
a. Despite being next to a major road The Highway A1203, see pic
b. Despite a Cabinet report 2 weeks ago showing we did not need a secondary school in the west of TH
School will cost circa £50 million to build
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Council Environmental Health thought it OK put 1,200 pupils here
Headteacher said it would be OK as building sealed & air filtered but air will come from inlets "where, although pollution is high, it is below the levels specified in the National Air Quality Objectives for NO2"
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The original planning application approved in 2014 since then the Council talks a lot about poor air quality around schools
But they are approving this knowing pollution is high!
+ How will pupils get here? where will they play? where will they hang out before & after school?
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2 weeks ago Cabinet was presented with this projection of year 7 pupils
In 2021 capacity for 3,143 pupils before new Wapping school opened (not including Raines school)
In 2022 capacity increased to 3,243 but only in 2023 do we need that extra school capacity!
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So Cabinet report suggests we do not need this new school especially after Raines school closed to the north of Wapping due to a lack of pupils
We should be building new Westferry Printworks sec school first as CW College in a temp building & better AQ
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democracy.towerhamlets.gov.uk/documents/s162…