Keep reading the Edinburgh Evening News as the Council has plans for a new hit list.

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Council On Thursday 19th June 2008 a presentation was made to the Education, Children and Families Committee where an imaginative plan for a partial sale of the existing school site for housing to finance a new school on the remainder of the site. John Mayer, advocate, opened the presentation the text of which can be read here. Further contributions were made by Gavin StrangMP, Margaret Paterson of Lismore Parents Action Group and members of the Bingham community

The council appears to be picking on the most needy and deprived schools as a natural consequence of the criteria the cross party forum has selected. The council denies that any decision has been made. However the article in the Evening News suggests a certain cynicism is in order.


Background information.
Lismore primary is a thriving school in the heart of a busy community, the school has been educating children from in and around the surrounding area for nearly sixty years. The school currently has around one hundred pupils and a nursery school of about twenty kids and for which there is a waiting list.

However under the previous Labour council and the current Liberal Democrat / SNP coalition there have been attempts to close the school. In 2004 the proposal was defeated, by one vote, as councillors were persuaded of the importance of the school to the whole community, it would destroy the community to lose it. More recently in 2007 the current coalition propose the closure of twenty two school and community facilities, including Lismore and the adjacent Community Hall. These proposals collapsed when the SNP withdrw their support in the face of widespread opposition across Edinburgh, however any joy felt by campaigners is tinged by a suspicion that fresh proposals are returning, perhaps in 2008 or sooner.