To expect schools to have outside space and playgrounds

[alanmckinney]

I'm a parent to four children and two are in primary school. Their school is about to lose most of its playground as new classrooms need to be built. I think this is absurd. Children that have no access to outside space is just not acceptable and I think unreasonable. Our school has options to expand on an adjacent peice of land but the council won't buy it. And new schools across the UK are opening with no outside space AT ALL!

I'd love to know opinions. Is it wrong? And if you feel it is, please join me in trying to stop this happening across the uk with my petition:

www.chn.ge/1fdChap

Thanks

It's wrong, but it would be even more wrong if there were children left with no school place at all.

It's hard to comment on the ins and outs of buying adjacent land in one specific case. But I guess most schools which need to accommodate bulge classes or expand permanently won't have affordable adjacent land for sale at just the right time.