LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION

The Facebrook pressure group (see earlier post today) highlights an interesting issue about the new Brigg Primary School.
Many eyebrows were raised when North Lincolnshire Council, as education authority, proposed to build the school at the end of Atherton Way. But most of us seem to have been carried along with the urgent need to replace the old facility in Glebe Road.
Some concerns were expressed about the location, but they were generally about the wisdom of putting a new school so close to the River Ancholme, in terms of flood risk.
Meanwhile, many of us failed to consider the problems which might arise from siting a school on an industrial estate where future development was being encouraged. Parents using cars to pick up and drop off children have to use the same road as traffic going to, and from, commercial premises.