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To: The Department for Education
Keep Walden School as a school for local children
Please ensure that Walden School remains a school and that the buildings are used by the local community as a school.
Why is this important?
It is important that Walden School is not taken over by developers for more housing or converted into flats.
Saffron Walden is in dire need of additional state school facilities. The primary schools and Saffron High are already full and cannot meet the needs of this growing town. The council has continually been asked to consider how it will meet the schooling needs of all the families moving into the area, now an opportunity has arisen, and sad as it is to see Walden School close, the council has a responsibility to ensure that the towns schooling needs are met. It is the perfect solution to an ongoing problem. The Department for Education needs to act quickly. There is an opportunity here for the school to be taken over and run as a state school, perhaps even preventing job losses.
For Walden School to close after so many years in the town is a huge shock to everyone. That the site not continue as a school would be a far greater tragedy.
Saffron Walden is in dire need of additional state school facilities. The primary schools and Saffron High are already full and cannot meet the needs of this growing town. The council has continually been asked to consider how it will meet the schooling needs of all the families moving into the area, now an opportunity has arisen, and sad as it is to see Walden School close, the council has a responsibility to ensure that the towns schooling needs are met. It is the perfect solution to an ongoing problem. The Department for Education needs to act quickly. There is an opportunity here for the school to be taken over and run as a state school, perhaps even preventing job losses.
For Walden School to close after so many years in the town is a huge shock to everyone. That the site not continue as a school would be a far greater tragedy.
