| # | Name | Comments |
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| 401 | Anonymous | |
| 402 | Brian Matthews | |
| 403 | Anonymous | |
| 404 | Anonymous | |
| 405 | colin fancy | I am a local parent of younger children and we are very concerned about this move , what lies behind it and how it will affect local children.
I wish the campaign every success and was very pleased to hear about it on the radio. |
| 406 | Catharine Pope | |
| 407 | Christine Stephens | I think the plan to move the school is ill conceived and further thought should be given |
| 408 | Jennifer Stephens | I do not agree with the proposal to move the school to the Peninsula as there are too many problems |
| 409 | Ian Gunningham | |
| 410 | ed chapple | not surprised but as an old roan from just before the school was forced to become comprehensive you should place emphasis on the tradition and history of the school. Any blue plaque listing for john roan in the borough are they to move the boards with those roan boys that died during ww1 and ww2 or is that pc not appropriate.
Badger nigel ballantyne he was head of english when i was there surely as a governor he must be appauled at the academic state and sports level of the school. The football teams has won more national championships than any other school.
Bring back selective education - i am glad i do not have to educate any child of mine in that borough. Only choice would be to pay.
02 not served by good transport links. pollution good argument whats the traffic like from the tunnel and a new congestion zone in greenwich will surely add.
Looks like you are dealing with a wrotten borough just as in the days of the founder over 300 yrs ago.
Good luck |
| 411 | Fergal Cooney (SE10 0ST) | I live on the Peninsula at GMV. My child goes to Millennium Primary. I object to the proposed size of the site being smaller than Millennium Primary when the number of children will be 3-4 more than at Millennium. Why move an established school from a perfectly good site and disturb the children & parents? Why not just build a new school from scratch for the Peninsula and its environs? Leave John Roan in peace! Build a NEW SCHOOL FOR THE NEW COMMUNITY ON THE PENINSULA! |
| 412 | Anonymous | |
| 413 | Anonymous | |
| 414 | Marilyn Allen | I am appalled and amazed that the council would ever consider siting a school on this site. Extremely dangerous travelling conditions for children as young as 11 and goodness knows what it will be like on dark winter evenings. Children will take shortcuts, they will try and cross these busy roads, how can the council justify this decision. |
| 415 | peter cook | |
| 416 | Simon Trussler | Our children deserve better than this. Greenwich deserves better than this. Invest in the future. Don't only think about your short term budgets. |
| 417 | Anonymous | I oppose the planned move of the John Roan School to the Peninsula |
| 418 | Anonymous | |
| 419 | manvir sandhu | |
| 420 | Mark Johnson | I would support this petition and the comments made. Clearly there are some strong arguments against Roan moving at this time. I believe the Headteacher has lost the moral authority to take long-term decisions regarding the school’s future and that of its innocent and largely hard-working pupils. Who speaks for them? Mark. |
| 421 | Prof. Matthew Carmona | |
| 422 | Peter Gardner | |
| 423 | Frank Bullen | The current site is an absolutely perfect one for a scholastic institute. Moving it to an industrial site further away from its catchment population is an example of malignant anti-elitism the increasing movement towards enforced egalitarianism, placing education institutes in "factories" reminiscent of Stalinist USSR.
This is much like moving Eton to the Slough Industrial Area. Ricky Gervase would make an ideal Principal. |
| 424 | Anonymous | I am a former Roan Girl (1955 to 1962) and now retired and living in Tenerife. During historical research I came upon the disturbing news of the proposed relocation of The Roan School. What on Earth is happening? Greenwich exists on the foundations built by such as John Roan. Is our entire heritage to be dashed away as if it has no purpose or importance? SEE SENSE NOW BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE! |
| 425 | Deborah Stanley | |
| 426 | Linda Tidy | |
| 427 | J Heslin | I agree with the above - a high rise school on the smoke-filled blackwall tunnel area would be terrible. John Roan should be kept on the present site as there is no other 'local' school for children in west Greenwich. Money spent on improving it's status, teaching & results would help! |
| 428 | Mrs A E Hart | |
| 429 | Sarah McGuffick | I am not a parent and have no connection with the JRS but I do find the proposed move incomprehensible and can only assume that whichever developer wants to build on the land currently occupied by the school has been very persuasive. As well as representing a major upheaval for the children and parents involved, the plan seems to have major disadvantages from the perspective of both health & safety (hundreds of children, many relatively young, having to travel several miles to school across an area full of major roads and on-going construction) and transport/environment (parents will presumably counter the aforementioned dangers by driving their children to school - more cars, more pollution, more congestion). I also find utterly bizarre the idea that a fenced-off playground on the top of a building might be appropriate space for hundreds of children - in a country where there is uproar at the ways calves are transported, it's seemingly OK to contain people in high-level cages. |
| 430 | Angela Birkett | I am increasingly convinced that the proposed new site for the John Roan School is not viable. It has inadequate play space, doesn't address the long-term needs of children living in the vicinity of the current school and is too close to the gasometer. |
| 431 | Tina O'Regan | Trust Greenwich Council to put massive profits before some basic needs of children. -i.e safe environment, clean air and space to play!! |
| 432 | Noel Willaims | just who do our 'representatives' think they are representing here, apart from a bunch of property developers? I find this absolutely astonishing. |
| 433 | sharon stanford | |
| 434 | samantha taylor | Disgusting. You cannot blight children's education for short term profit. |
| 435 | Glen Pullen | As one of the previously privileged few I want the ALL the young people of Greenwich to share a good education in the beautiful and healthy environment of the Park and heath. Keep the John Roan School where it is ! |
| 436 | Ann Hicks | This site is absolutely unfit for children who are the future of this country. |
| 437 | Brian Dudley Clarke | I am an Old Roan having attended the school from 1948 to 1953 & owe a great deal to the school for the excellent education which I received there.I am very concerned at the plans to destroy the proud 300 years of tradition of this excellent school by moving it to a completely unsuitable site. John Roan must be turning in his grave! |
| 438 | Louise Buckle | I strongly disagree with the plans to move the John Roan school. They appear to be both short sighted and not in the best interests of the pupils attending this school |
| 439 | Richard Hunter | A uniquely transparent pandering to property developers. Anyone involved in proposing this should resign - or spend a week inhaling the toxic shit pumped out of the neighbouring Hays plant through a mask. |
| 440 | Barbara Reid | The planned move just doesn't make sense. What are the Roan trustees doing about it? |
| 441 | Julie Wilson | |
| 442 | Anonymous | |
| 443 | Gerard Adamson | As a new parent and a Greenwich resident, I find it depressing that my son, in all probability, won't be able to go to school in the immediate area in which he lives. It seems that these days, the buying and selling of land and property- and the frenzy of greed which this generates- overrides everything including the community and the best interests of our children.
That 300 years of tradition can be tossed aside to make a quick buck is appaling- and we all know what'll go up in its place: 'luxury' flats for pot noodle eating, SUV driving City workers |
| 444 | George Cooper | The council should consider the long term value of a school to the community. Not just the short term value of a property transaction. |
| 445 | Andrea Coop | I have read the petition and it is so sad. I left teaching Roan a year ago and I can assure you there are some amazing teachers there, its a shame there is too much dead weight to carry. The current site is excellent. I loved taking kids running in the park, and walking them down to the Arches Leisure Centre. I am very proud to say I taught at the Roan, but very sad that we were lied to. We were promised a state of the Art School 4 years ago, no wonder they never told us where! I wish all the Roan Staff and Students luck in battling the most stupid idea I have heard since my last school changed their name to "All Saints" because Headteacher ran off with all the money. That School closed down last year! Please don't let it happen to the Roan. |
| 446 | derek biles | I guestion the motives behind this move, Is there an hidden agenda based on ruthless financial reasons planners need to use land or purely political All the logical reasons may be ignored |
| 447 | Julie Fenner | I come from an NHS background, so understand the need to provide public services within the financial means available. However, the proposal to move to a site with so little proper outdoor space and in such a polluted area is appalling.
I hope very much that the LEA will listen to the views of local parents and people and not go ahead with these proposals. |
| 448 | Sian Evans | |
| 449 | Ravinder Matharu | Leave well alone. |
| 450 | Wendy Butler | |