MEETING WAS JUST A FIASCO

04 July 2005

Recently I attended a consultation meeting at Grange Primary School in West Cross, Swansea, to discuss proposals for the new Welsh school with cabinet member for education Mike Day and highways department representatives. I would like to congratulate Mike Day on turning a fiasco into absolute farce to which only the appearance of Sir Norman Wisdom could have added any sanity.

Parents, grandparents, local residents and other concerned parties left this meeting totally confused and even more concerned.

We were informed that Swansea Council had no realistic costs for this development, knowing that the proposed school site had major drainage and serious traffic problems.

They were not even sure that the school would fit into the designated site. Will they decide this before or after they destroy 48 beautiful trees?

They did not know how many pupils would be attending the school, 400 or even 500, or how many coaches would be stuck in West Cross Lane.

How dare they propose this without addressing these serious problems. Major questions were asked time and again with no apparent answers. When the problems of adding to horrendous traffic in and around the West Cross area were addressed, their answer was simply: "This road is not one of Swansea's top 100 danger zones".

Gaynor Morgan, Druids Close, Swansea