The Mouldon Hill site (either entrance) comes with the Class Solutions design.
It is fairly obvious that the Croft was set up and the public stitched up to use this as the prototype and brochure for this half baked venture cobbled together in secret.
The Croft school, wonderful though the education may be and I hope is inside, is an eyesore. It looks as though all of the money has been spent on shoring up the ground and assembing MFI like sheds and roofs. All the other stuff necessary for a school.. like playgrounds and fences and entrances etc., look as though they came from the back garage at SCS. All a bit Blue Peter'ish.
A recent article in the Adver about the Croft featured a head of the White Horse Federation waxing lyrical about the design and their involvement in it and, if I recall, stated that Class Solutions would be the design for all new schools in Swindon.
Now how on earth could a member of the WHF state or even know this? Do elected members know this? Where has this been minuted? And has anyone told St Joseph's?
It is fairly obvious that the Croft was set up and the public stitched up to use this as the prototype and brochure for this half baked venture cobbled together in secret.
The Croft school, wonderful though the education may be and I hope is inside, is an eyesore. It looks as though all of the money has been spent on shoring up the ground and assembing MFI like sheds and roofs. All the other stuff necessary for a school.. like playgrounds and fences and entrances etc., look as though they came from the back garage at SCS. All a bit Blue Peter'ish.
A recent article in the Adver about the Croft featured a head of the White Horse Federation waxing lyrical about the design and their involvement in it and, if I recall, stated that Class Solutions would be the design for all new schools in Swindon.
Now how on earth could a member of the WHF state or even know this? Do elected members know this? Where has this been minuted? And has anyone told St Joseph's?
Not sure what the representative of the WHF was selling... education or construction... if the latter, it is to be wondered what the WHF's interest is. As with all things, this will no doubt come out sooner or later.
To date, not a single elected member has been seen anywhere near the Croft to have the usual photographs taken.. although an unlamented and past WC is regularly spotted driving slowly past...all a bit distasteful... obviously lacks the backbone to get out of the car?
In the same Adver article there was a lament that SBC/SCS or WHF? had not yet been able to sell this 'flagship design' to other Councils.
SBC/SCS appear to still believe that Class Solutions is a goer and they need somewhere to 'show it off'.
The Class Solutions design (the sheer scale of which, rumour has it, shocked even the SCS chappies who had to assemble it) will dwarf nearby homes ... I would suggest it can only be built in wide open spaces far far away for communities.
Class Solutions needs Mouldon Hill.
It will be interesting to see what Cllr Renard puts forward for his report for North Swindon 2014 school places.
As a result of the Croft , the public can see how the administration works, it is not a pretty sight.
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