Councillors have spoken out against the proposed closure of a north Leeds primary school. Campaigners are fighting to save Queensway Primary School in Yeadon, after the council unveiled a plan to shut it, because of a drop in the birth rate and the number of school-aged kids in the area.
A four-week consultation over the move is ongoing. But Otley and Yeadon councillor Ryk Downes said he was “strongly opposed” to the idea and that he was backing the petition to save the school.
Liberal Democrat Councillor Downes said: “It’s irresponsible for the council to have come straight out with this, because it means parents will now be reluctant to send their child to Queensway in the meantime, if they think they’ll have to move them again mid-school. Closing the school therefore becomes a self-fulflling prophecy.”
