Sofia Moussaoui, Chair of Governors of Islamia Primary School, today wrote to parents and carers, suggesting that a more suitable site for the evicted school might be found than that at Strathcona in Preston ward.
The proposed move to Strathcona has been opposed by the great majority of parents and community that responded to the informal consultation as Wembley Matters revealed earlier this week. LINK
The letter stated:
Following the personal intenvention fo our Founder Yusuf Islam, earlier this week, and a meeting with Cllr (Muhammed) Butt, it has been agreed that Islamia can remain on the current site at least until the end of August 2024, to enable further consideration of the needs of the school and further work to be done to identify a more suitable local solution, I understand that Yusuf Islam will also be writing to parents and that letter will be sent on when received.
The parents are assured that the Governing Body and Local Authority continue to consider the suitability of the Strathcona site for Islamia Primary School and no final decision has been taken on the suitability of relocating to that site: 'that decision cannot be made until we are clear on whether there will be any other options.'
The mention of a 'more suitable local solution' suggests that a site in Queens Park or Kilburn is being sought, despite earlier Council claims that no site in the area was available.
The overdue formal consultation, to be managed by the school, cannot be carried out until a potential site/s can be included in the proposal.
A parent commented:
This communication sounds more positive compared to past ones and parents are hopeful a local solution will be identified soon. This is a highly successful and resilient school in Brent. We need a good outcome to celebrate a fantastic school that is going to turn 40 this year.
5 comments:
Let's hope they shelved the Strathcona nonsense and the even bigger "close the school" nonsense. There are plenty of local solutions in Kilburn . Muhammad Butt said he explored them all. Maybe he needs to actually explore them around Kilburn area not South Kenton out of spite for SKPPRA.
Wasn't Strathcona a done deal? Sounded like it.
Strathcona was a done deal, and the Council has already spent £000s, of our money, on consultants to prepare for it.
Perhaps, for once, the consultants were brave enough to tell their paymaster that their done deal was a very bad plan.
Maybe they could just integrate into a mainstream school.
Why hasn't Butt, Tatler, Kelcher & Co come up with a plan to build housing on the Strathcona site? Policies certainly allow for the re-use of the site for building Social Housing. Oops, sorry forgot, we don't build Social Housing in Bent as it doesn't make enough profit for the developer friends of Bent Council.
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