Special Council Meeting on Wednesday 17th July - Re Merger of Kings School and Priory Primary School

Special Council Meeting on Wednesday 17th July - Re Merger of Kings School and Priory Primary School The Cabinet of North Tyneside Council have decided to seek the views of the full council on the proposals to merge Priory Primary School and the Independent Fee Paying Kings School in advance of making a decision on whether to seek a Judicial Review on the Secretary of State’s decision to approve the merger. This is an opportunity to allow all councillors to ask questions and express their views. The Leader of the Labour Group Councillor Jim Allan said :- The Labour Group of Councillors are seriously concerned that the proposal to merge Kings and Priory schools may have an unintended impact on the other schools across the Borough. Of course, parents and governors at the two schools in question are in favour of the merger but the Council's role on Wednesday is to protect the interests of the many thousands of children across North Tyneside who won't be going to the proposed school. Their voice hasn't been heard in this debate so far and it's high time the 'silent majority' who will have to live with the consequences had their voices heard. The Labour group is committed to representing that 'silent voice'. For example, we need to question the Secretary of State over the impact on other schools in the Borough when he uses £5m from the tax payers purse to wipe out Kings school debt. As it stands, there are no assurances that this money will not be recouped by central government by reducing the amount of funding per head in other schools across the borough. We feel Michael Gove has many questions to answer and that's why I will be writing to him prior to next week’s meeting to seek answers'.

North Tyneside Clean Up Teams

On Wednesday 10 July Our North Tyneside Clean Up Teams will be in Bowman Drive, Fern Drive (up to March Road) Owen Brannigan Drive, Love Avenue, Patrick Terrace, Ozanan Drive and Burt Crescent making sure the neighbourhood is clean, tidy and safe.

On the day they will be tackling any specific ‘hot-spot’ areas and will carry out street cleaning.  They will also be removing any fly-tipping and graffiti, putting up ‘no dog fouling’ signs and issuing fixed penalty notices to anyone seen failing to pick up after their dog or dropping litter.  They will also remove bulky rubbish from resident’s property and if any residents wish to take advantage of this service they should contact the Estte Caretaking Service Team on 0191 643 - 7514/7515/7516 to advise which items they want removed