Plans for a free school rather than the relocation of a crumbling primary school on a former market site in Old Swan have been objected to “in the strongest possible terms” by the area’s MP.
It was revealed this week that Liverpool Council is to take a decision this week about whether to dispose of an unoccupied almost nine acre site on Prescot Road. The land is to be declared surplus to requirements and to be disposed of for educational use only.
As a result, the Department for Education (DfE) will be offered the location to build a new free school as the local authority wrestles with the challenges of a lack of school places across the city. However, Paula Barker, Labour MP for Liverpool Wavertree, has written to Mayor Joanne Anderson and her cabinet to put across her disagreements with the proposed way forward.
