New Traveller Site in Tolworth

12 years ago...

There is a plan to alter the "playing field" status of Tolworth Girls' School's playing field to "residential" (search the RBK site for "Gleeson" and "Land at Tolworth Girls School" - site is down at the moment so apologies, I cannot provide the link).

My neighbours tell me that "residential" means a new Traveller Site alongside Swallow Park. Does anyone have more details? The governers of Tolworth Girls School are the ones to harangue over this because if they refuse to sell their land for that purpose then (presumably) the scheme cannot go ahead.

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This rumour is definitely wrong. Tolworth Girls School is having enormous problems with lawless and anti-social behaviour that emanates from the Traveller Site, including:

Racing motorcycles around the playing fields.
Firing guns at bottles to leave heaps of broken glass.
Letting dogs run wild to attack the children.

As fast as the school tries to seal its boundary, the barricades are broken down again. The idea that the school would allow the site to expand is ridiculous. At the moment the children are banned from most of their own playing field because it is unsafe!

Being stuck in the dark ages and having lived near Travellers and Didicoyes in the New Forest,I can assure you that they will wreck and despoil any area that they choose to live in or near.It is not being racist,it is simply a fact.

The "Berlin wall" alongside the site by the A3 is the start,eventually the TGS site will be absorbed into the ghetto.

Why not rebuild TGS on the "Tesco" site as an academy or free school or whatever is trendy these days and let the low lifes free to roam the plating fields but ensure no road access is granted.

Thanks for the link. I will read the 81 pages in details later as it has interesting comments re the Toby Jug (TESCO) site. As this is all about commenting on the proposed new core strategy for planning purposes they are trying to identify future uses of sites. It mentions the Tolworth Girls School land as contaminated. There are lots of policies to take into account before you could build on it. Travellor site seems a bit premature

It is premature because now is the time to nip it in the bud. The field is 6.5 acres and is being deliberately neglected so something will have to happen to it, via the planning system. It has no outlet to the public road:

1) A3 impossible
2) Red Lion Road - too far away; through the industrial estate would mean demolishing units, through the school would split the school.
3) Selborne Avenue - demolish two houses.
4) Chaffinch Close - demolish two houses or buy up private road.

So there is no obvious outlet except Swallow Park. Such an outlet is only suitable for one kind of development, and until the school denies it, I prefer to worry about it along with my neighbours. I attach an email discussion I've been having with John Gardner the school's representative and you can judge for yourself:

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I have just seen your notes of yesterday (Sunday). The idea of the social settlement expanding into the School ground is entirely mythical. I have said that I am taking the School's instructions and would be happy to meet with you to discuss generally.

Please email myself alone; you have unintentionally emailed the general office, I guess, at Tolworth Girls School to be dealt with by administrative staff who are entirely unconnected with any plans the school may have for improvements to the School's facilities. The School will fully consult nearby residents on any changes it plans.

I look forward to meeting up with you and please come back with any concerns you have.

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"The idea of the social settlement expanding into the School ground is entirely mythical." doesn't reassue me one jot, because that is not a natural way of saying "I can promise you uneqivocally that it will never happen!", and because the field in question will no longer belong to the school. "At 10 acres one of the largest traveller sites in Europe" - right in the centre of suburban London - unstoppable under the new planning laws.

The very worst kind of a traveller site at that with itinerant crime waves coming and going in bursts, as they do at the moment but to a lesser extent, blighting Cranborne Avenue and The Broadway.

This isn't my story, but I was wrong about the flats, I was wrong about the houses, I am running out of things to be wrong about! The story is extant in Google and will be showing up in Solicitor's searches causing buyers to pull out. It needs to be rebutted quickly.

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