SIR,
I should like to comment on last week's letter regarding the suitability of the present comprehensive school site and the recent erection of the temporary buildings on the site.
The relocation of the school to an improved location is obviously a hugely expensive project that is difficult to justify at the present time.
However, has the school not missed two recent golden opportunities to significantly expand its facilities at a much lesser cost?
The publicly-owned clinic site adjoining the school became vacant some years ago and has now been allowed to deteriorate into a considerable eyesore.
A planning application for residential development has recently been rejected. Surely a school extension should have been an obvious use of this site.
Slightly further away from the school, but still within a few minutes walk, there was the hospital site. The other Monmouth school's pupils have to walk between sites, and so presumably this might also have been a possibility for the comprehensive school.
Were the school governors sleeping when these two sites became vacant?
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