The owners/developers of the previous Thornes House School/Wakefield College Thornes Park Campus are trying to get permissions to redevelop the site. To do this they will need the removal by the Council of covenants on the land to enable its development and provision of land to create an access road.
The park belongs to the people of Wakefield and surrounding area and should not be given over to housing or other private usage. Now is the time to make your views known.
Developers acting for Wakefield College are planning a large residential development and a care home in the centre of Thornes Park (10 acres possibly 200 houses), which with public access would destroy the Park.
Wakefield Council hold the key, without their support the residential site will not have a suitable access and the Park cannot be developed.
Please write to Peter Box (Leader of the Council) c/o Town Hall, Bond Street, Wakefield WF1 2QW or pbox@wakefield.gov.uk and to Denise Jeffery, c/o Town Hall, Bond Street, Wakefield WF1 2QW at djeffery@wakefield.gov.uk by October 15th when it will be discussed, demanding that Wakefield Council do not lift any covenants that prevent development or sell any land to the developer to get an access to the site at any price.
Our Park is priceless – we should be protecting it for future generations.
To
Councillor Peter Box, Leader, Wakefield MDC
We have signed the attached petition because we strongly object to residential redevelopment of the Thornes House campus site situated, as it is, in the heart of Wakefield Park, a much used and well loved public space.
To allow such redevelopment, with its associated access requirements, would cause irreparable damage to the public aspect of the park and we demand that Wakefield MD Council does not lift any covenants that prevent such development or sell any land to the developer to construct access to the site at any price. Our Park is priceless - we should be protecting it for future generations.
