New Willowfield school scrapped

Two months after pupils exhibited their ideas for the new build PFI Willowfield school, the scheme has today (July 5th) been scrapped by Education secretary Michael Gove. All other BSF projects in Walthamstow were also halted. FULL LIST OF BSF PROJECTS SCRAPPED (PDF) While residents were concerned at possible plans for housing above the school [...]

Willowfield School to be Performing Arts & Film Centre?

Willowfield School have applied for £182,000 LAA funding “to create a hub within the school to develop a dual use performing arts and film centre for use by the school and wider community“. Details on the Performing Arts & Film Centre proposals (PDF) The school plans to open in September 2011 on the old goods [...]

Council meet on Willowfield School & EMD Cinema

On the 20th of May the council approved the Willowfield School proposals, as well as reporting back on their progress in pushing through proposals to convert the EMD Cinema into a church (Minutes and details of meeting available here). Amusingly the council reports that the Church have informed them that the building can not be [...]

Willowfield Planning brief ignores residents views

Back in March BAG organised a well attended public meeting about the propsed Willowfield school development. At that meeting Cllr Robbins promised to convey to cabinet the unanimous opposition of all stakeholders (residents and parents and teachers) to plans for the school to be higher than 3 stories, and for housing either next to or [...]

Have your say on willowfield school proposals

Thanks to everyone who came along to BAG’s meeting about the Willowfield school plan. The deadline for sending in your concerns is the 23rd of March so if you want to have your say you can do it in two ways: Send any concerns or views to london@nlpplanning.com or write to: Attention of C. Widdowson [...]

IMPORTANT :: WILLOWFIELD CONSULTATION NEXT WEDS, 18th

Have your say on THE FUTURE OF OUR CHILDREN AND OUR LOCAL AREA

Public meeting about the relocation of Willowfield School

Wednesday 18th of March @ 7:30pm

At Willowfield School, (main hall, entrance through the car park) Clifton Avenue, E17 6HL

Your chance to question councillors and officials about the quality of their plans

Willowfield school public consultation

Public consultation has begun on the councils plans to site the 600 pupil Willowfield school at the top end of Douglas Eyre playing fields. Download Council Planning Brief: Consultation Draft (1.8MB PDF file) for more detailed information. Points: School current size: 600 pupils (Age 11-16). Will increase in size from current 4FE to 6FE (roughly [...]

BAG Newsletter

URGENT COUNCIL CONSULTATION The council would like residents feedback on plans to site Willowfield school at the top of the Douglas Eyre playing fields. Visit the Building Schools for the Future consultation here to give them your views. As usual with council consultations they’ve waited until less than a week before the closing date to [...]

BAG Newsletter July 2008

Hi all, It’s taken us an age to produce a first newsletter, so apologies for that. The good news is that BAG now has over 120 members and hopes to continue growing and getting stronger. Contact us or join here. Without any further ado here’s what’s been happening in the last few months:

Local press picks up school story…

If you haven’t seen it already, the Walthamstow Guardian has a piece in it about the Council’s plans to build a new Willowfield School on the playing fields behind Edward Road. A couple of BAG members got themselves quoted, which is nice! Read the article here.

Flood risk map

Hi all, Since the Council has put the rebuilding of Willowfield School on green belt land back on the agenda, we thought that a reminder of the actual flood risk would be a good idea. Remember, the Council’s argument is based on the idea that the Douglas Eyre Playing Fields are not as much at [...]

school to be built on douglas eyre playing fields after all?!

The proposal to build Willowfield School on the Douglas Eyre playing fields (which is green belt land) is back on the agenda! The following has appeared on the council’s website, tucked away in the “schools/BSF bulletins” section: http://www.walthamforest.gov.uk/bsfmonthly_bullentin_sept-oct07.pdf “Willowfield School Governing Body and the Council met on 14th October to discuss the effects of recent [...]