tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2129943063330427887.post4198207780109684514..comments2024-03-28T09:45:17.708+00:00Comments on WEMBLEY MATTERS: Welsh Harp Centre to continue education function but may have other recreational usesUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2129943063330427887.post-81207488516215686682015-06-08T19:27:33.926+01:002015-06-08T19:27:33.926+01:00Looking at the plan provided, the "Demise&quo...Looking at the plan provided, the "Demise" (land and buildings) which the Council is marketing as "Welsh Harp Field Centre" is only the classrooms and small play / picnic area at the north-west corner of the previous Welsh Harp Environmental Education Centre. The large area of land on the opposite side of the road, which includes the nature study area and the ponds used by at least a generation of local school children for "pond-dipping", and the small area behind Planet House where the bee hives are sited, have been excluded, so that the intended lessees (Carey's and/or the local schools who have expressed an interest in taking over the facility) will not actually be able to run an Environmental Education Centre there.<br /><br />I smell a rat! The Council seems to be quietly preparing to sell off most of the land (for development?), leaving just the classrooms as a potential overflow site for primary school expansion, while trying to give the impression that it is actually doing something to replace the Welsh Harp Environmental Education Centre which it short-sightedly, and against the advice of many local people, voted to stop funding.<br /><br />Philip Grant.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2129943063330427887.post-16920029433854789422015-06-08T18:17:27.128+01:002015-06-08T18:17:27.128+01:00Second time in a couple of months brent has revert...Second time in a couple of months brent has reverted to WembleyMatters! This needs to be a banner. As recommended by Brent Council, but not Cllr Butt. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com