Greg Hands MP and H&F Conservative Councillors have written to the Leader of H&F Council today suggesting a new site for Fulham Boys School.
Watermeadow Court on Townmead Road, London SW6 2RW is currently an empty housing estate, owned entirely by the council - which could be released very quickly to save the school from having to send pupils expecting to start this September away to other schools.
The site is currently derelict and unoccupied, with no existing planning applications or planning permissions and entirely within the Council’s direct ability to sell with no complications. Geographically the site is in south Fulham, easily accessible by bus and train and easily walkable from a large proportion of SW6 postcodes.
Commenting, H&F Council Conservative Group Leader Cllr Greg Smith said, "With the new Labour Council having stopped the permanent site Fulham Boys School were expected to take over from being available, local Conservatives are determined to help the Governors of the school and local parents find a new site to get the school open as soon as possible. The Watermeadow Court site is one entirely in the gift of the council and having said they support the school, I seriously hope they now do everything they can to make the land available.” Fulham
MP Greg Hands added: “I met the Schools Minister again this week, and he was clear that for Fulham Boys School to be given approval and funding, it needs to show it has an excellent chance of securing a permanent site. This new site has huge advantages: it is owned by the Council; it is effectively empty and not in use; it has no existing planning permissions granted and it is very well located. Let us see if the Council will work with us, even at this very late hour, to do the right thing for the parents of the Fulham Boys School.”
Letter to Stephen Cowan re Fulham Boys School by Greg Hands M.P. & Cllr Greg Smith