Back to that 2018 Local Plan and the Liberal Democrat cavalier attitude to SEN education, we were concerned about the allocation of the former Playing Fields at Sheen Way on the Highview Estate for an SEN school.
Rejected by Sutton’s Planning Committee, the plans were accepted after a Planning Enquiry where residents were represented by Tim Foster and Jillian Green. Conditions were applied which included a wholly revised Construction Logistics Plan because residents from both sides of the railway line cannot understand how the builders will get their construction equipment through the narrow estate roads.
Tim Foster Chaired a Residents’ Liaison Group to oversee the build and the Group were praised by the then Head of Planning as a template for future such groups. There were ongoing concerns about traffic and the safety of residents and pupils. All those concerns have been articulated to the School and local MP Bobby Dean in May 2025 but no change.
In the typical contradictory style of this Administration, the residents of Highview lost their green space because Carew Manor was unsuitable for SEN education – so no-one was surprised when sen pupils from Sherwood Park School began to use the empty Manor.