PROTECT TUNSTALL COMMUNITY

For the last decade or more it has been impossible to cross Sittingbourne at the start and end of the school day due, in part at least, to the number of cars delivering and collecting children from housing developments to the north (Iwade, Sonara Fields) to schools in the south, both closer to the town and in the surrounding villages. At last, a much overdue new school development gives the opportunity to alleviate this perpetual problem. It must be obvious to all that to site the new school where the children are, to the north of the town, would not only avoid needlessly worsening this situation but could actually improve it by reducing the need for so many journeys and so much disruption. But no, KCC’s only proposal is to place an even larger school just about as far south as you can go. We don’t expect KCC to care, they are only interested in their own budget, but Swale must have a duty to stand up for its own residents and seek the best solution, not the cheapest!