PROTECT TUNSTALL COMMUNITY

I am always suspicious when an authoritative body, such as KCC, has to resort to lying or misrepresenting a situation to get its own way. The Transport Document that is available via the KCC planning link has used some dodgy information to draw up the conclusions that it wants to. Chapter 6.3.9 assures us that the additional traffic generated by this proposal on the junction of Woodstock Road, Tunstall Road, Cromers Road and Ruins Barn Road is negligible based on the understanding that the number of children who will share the school journey will increase because the school is being relocated by 500m. Similarly, this same document tells us that 10 children currently cycle to school. However, the shool's own Travel Plan states that no children cycle. KCC figure comes from a show of hands survey undertaken by the school. Chapter 5.3.5 states that any parents that walk are forced to walk on the carriageway of Tunstall Road, but this is misleading and wrong. There is a continuous path for those families who walk from Park Drive. To omit this fact is devious. If the official documents that are being presented to the decision makers are this untrustworthy, what can we expect from KCC regarding the real future intentions of the teaching objectives at the new school?