….which LBTH council officials wish to demolish.
Last month Tower Hamlets councillors voted to refuse plans for a new four-storey primary school and demolition of the current school. But now council officers are leaning on councillors to reverse their decision when the committee meets on Thursday 18 April 7.30pm.
The application for a new four-storey school is being made from within the Council by the Education, Social Care & Well-being department.
Though the current school is not a listed building it will be one of only two remaining original buildings in the vast new Blackwall Reach regeneration area. Interestingly, the Blackwall Reach developer doesn’t require demolition of the school and is seeking to create a character area there. But the council’s Schools Department wants to knock it down and planning officer Andrew Hargreaves states the building has no ‘heritage value’ and cannot be ‘locally listed’.
Award-winning architects Birds Portchmouth Russum have designed an alternative plan that both expands the school and conserves the building. Local neighbours have supported this by signing the petition and say nobody has asked for their opinion on whether to demolish the school.
SIGN THE PETITION AND ATTEND THE MEETING ON THURSDAY 18th April at 7.30pm to SCRUTINISE Tower Hamlets’ DECISION-MAKING PROCESS (Council Chamber, Town Hall, Mulberry Place: DLR to East In
On the left image showing the schools position in ‘Building Parcel R’ within the proposed Blackwall Reach Regeneration Area.
Built in the neo-Georgian style the school was opened in 1916./
Tower Hamlets Council is in the background on the left with Robin Hood Gardens on the right.
