LETTER: Benefits from Southwater site

By The Newsroom
Published 15th Feb 2014, 08:00 BST
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Dr Thwaites letter (WSCT 6th Feb) conveniently omits a killer point. The Director of Learning at WSCC, David Sword, also stated ‘At some stage after 2015, a new school will be needed [in Southwater]’.

Dr Thwaites said a new secondary school in Southwater would result in Horsham children being bussed into Southwater! Nonsense. Why would anyone do that when those children already have school places in Horsham?

The fact is there are already more than 640 children in Southwater who need a local secondary school. Add to that an average of two children per household in the 550 houses already planned for Southwater then Southwater will itself generate more more than enough demand for a 1,000-plus secondary school.

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Building a secondary school north of Horsham would inevitably result in a change in the north Horsham (Holbrook, etc) school catchment area - resulting in children in North Horsham being excluded from attending Millais and Forest schools and having to cross the A264 dual carriageway to go to school.