Derbyshire school places shortfall
More than 1,800 Derbyshire children over the next five years will have to attend schools outside their catchment after central Government pulled the plug on a long-planned new secondary. A falling birth rate was the reason put forward for the Labour Government’s reason to scrap the planned £27 million 1,230-space secondary school on the Infinity Garden Village, bordering Chellaston. Its decision, issued at the end of March, came despite fervent lobbying from politicians of all political persuasions, including South Derbyshire’s […]
