Wandsworth Council issues Statement
Wandsworth Council has issued a statement in response to an article in the Wandsworth Guardian about the Waldorf School of south west London (http://www.yourlocalguardian.co.uk/news), who currently lease the Woodfield Recreation Ground from Wandsworth Council. Wandsworth proposes to ’return’ this piece of land to the public in compensation for the land it plans to develop on the main part of the Common.
”Unfortunately there is currently a considerable amount of misinformation that is being circulated throughout the area, much of which appears to have emanated from people associated with the Steiner School. I must stress to you that the land on which we propose building new sports and leisure facilities for young people, is not the land currently occupied by the Steiner School…” See full statement http://www.wandsworth.gov.uk/Home/MyWandsworth/Pressreleases)
December 4th, 2007 at 1:08 pm
According to the Wandworth Council paper 07755 (Revised) ‘Officers propose to seek expressions of interest for a five-a-side football facility to provide a series of up to 10 five-a-side all-weather surface football pitches on and adjacent to the all-weather surface in the Tooting Triangle, or other similar activity, which would support the five Council corporate objectives. In order for this proposal to be financially viable a small area of additional Common may be required to be incorporated into the project.’
It may not be the land the school occupies but ‘the small area of additional Common’ is still Tooting Common land used by the public all year round - in all weathers - for free!
December 5th, 2007 at 8:50 pm
It is my understanding that it is only the footprint of the buildings that Wandsworth lease to the school and not the whole of Woodfield site, which is available to the public already even if it is not used by many. Perhaps this point needs to be clarified before Wandsworth so generously ‘returns’ the land to the public, the only part they would be ‘returning’ is the bit of land which the building is on!