Focus
Ryton, Crookhill, Stella, Crawcrook, Greenside, Clara Vale
Let common
sense prevail
on new school
Residents’ survey shows people want school to remain at current Ryton site
PRESSURE is
mounting on
Gateshead Council to
back down on
proposals to close
down the existing
Ryton Comprehensive
School site and move it
to a new location next
to the Ryton/
Crawcrook By-pass.
Surveys of residents
carried out since last year,
which included one by local
Liberal Democrats, showed
overwhelming support for
keeping the school at its
current site.
The late
L a b o u r
Government
agreed to the
funding to
build a new
school just
before the
zCllr Derek G e n e r a l
Anderson Election!
Gateshead Council is
closing Hookergate School
and pupils are being
transferred to Ryton.
But Labour’s proposals to
Schools’ cash saved from squeeze
SPENDING on schools is
being protected by the
Coalition government
despite big cuts being
made elsewhere to
balance the budget.
Cuts to public spending are borrowing at that level
z Sally Danys and Councillors Noel
and Ione Rippeth are calling for
Ryton School to remain at its present
site.
move from the existing Ryton
site have met with a hostile
response from local residents.
“We asked residents what
they thought of the plans to
build in the greenbelt on
Woodside Lane next to the By-
Pass,” said Cllr Derek
Anderson.
“The vast majority of
responses were very clear -
people want the existing site
needed to get the deficit
under control - last year the
Labour Gover nment
borrowed £157 billion - a
quarter of the cash they
spent.
Everyone knows that
Autumn 2010
Schools to
get 20mph
zones
SAFETY around local
schools is set to improve
following a decision to
bring in 20mph zones.
All schools in Gateshead are to
have the zones introduced over the
coming years.
The Focus teams in Crawcrook
& Greenside and in Ryton,
Crookhill and Stella have
welcomed the decision.
“We have been asking for
Twenty’s Plenty advisory notices
outside our schools for several
years,” said Councillor Derek
Anderson.
“We look forward to the zones
coming to Crookhill Primary and
St Mary & St Thomas at Stella.”
In Crawcrook the zone for
Emmaville will be extended along
Main Street.
Advisory Signs
The zone for St Agnes
School on its new site in
Kepier Chare is causing
zThorpe School occupied the current concer n for local
site of Ryton School from the 1880s. residents.
Let’s keep the school at its current Your Lib Dem Focus Team has
location as well!
suggested that, due to the winding
to be retained and for the sense prevails and the nature of the estate’s roads,
school to be refurbished.” “Twenty’s Plenty” advisory
Council opts to improve the
notices without the expense of a
Sally Danys, who also existing site.
helped co-ordinate the full set of road signs and the
“Liberal Democrat
survey, said, “The final statutory accompanying road
Councillors are pressing for
humps would be just as effective.
decision has not been made
that”.
Extended zone
by the Council on whether to
build a new school next to the Ministers have put
By-Pass or refurbish the school building projects on
existing school on the same hold whilst a review takes Your local Councillors in
site. place to decide which can Greenside are requesting
“We hope that common go ahead. that the zone for
Greenside Primary be
extended .
They want it to cover the junctions
cannot continue. Even so, the “We are arguing strongly
of Rockwood Hill Road and the
Coalition agreed that schools for some of this money to be
Lead Rd, the junction at the Lead
will be protected from cuts. invested in refurbishing
Road and Spen Road, the entrance
Ryton on the existing site,”
And there will also be £16 to the road leading off to Charlie,
said ”Councillor Noel
billion to invest in school Frank & Nelson Streets, and the
Rippeth, Leader of the Lib
buildings over the next 4 Dem Woodside Lane/ Lead Road
Opposition on
years. junction.
Gateshead Council.