BROADLANDS RESIDENTS’ ASSOCIATION
Press Release
31
October 2011
Bridgend County Borough Council’s education
department is consulting for a third time on proposed changes to the catchment
of Maes yr Haul school in Broadlands and Trelales school in Laleston.
The change has been strongly resisted by
many Broadlands residents, who see the plan as unnecessary and harmful to the
community.
Residents are also angered by the way in
which the Council’s officers have failed to answer key questions about their
plans.
Arfon Hughes, Vice-Chair of the Broadlands
Residents’ Association, commented:
“Once again the Education Department has
put forward proposals to change the school catchment without providing the
evidence for change that the Residents’ Association, the school governors and
others have asked for.
They seem dead set on altering the
catchment of Maes yr Haul school, regardless of whether it is necessary or not.
Why do they continue to push this wasteful and unnecessary proposal?
It is time for the Council to stop playing
games with our community and our children’s education. It should be spending its limited budget on
teachers and equipment, not buying land from farmers to build unnecessary
footpaths. “
ENDS
For further information visit our website www.broadlandsresidents.org or
contact Arfon Hughes on 07590 527038
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