WHOEVER thinks closing an existing primary school (Egerton) and re-siting on the land of a secondary school, (Knutsford Academy), currently constrained from achieving its stated ambition, is a good idea please come forward.

This is a totally inadequate response to the serious shortage of Knutsford area primary school places.

It fails to recognise the ambition of the academy to deliver an academic plus curriculum that requires improved sports and performance facilities.

It fails to appreciate that children of primary school age grow up to be secondary school age!

The current places pressure will move up to the Academy, and the scale of the proposed development in Knutsford and Mobberley will again overwhelm provision.

I would like to ask governors, head teachers and politicians to explain their proposal, together with reference to the relevant meetings where the matter was, I presume, discussed.

Finally why have people spent years engaging with the local plan, taking into consideration various matters, when the council school organisation body seems to be able to put in a new proposal with no such engagement?

The solution is to find a new site and retain all existing until fully developed.

Then this public land, which we seriously lack in Knutsford, should be put to another public use.

Perhaps a new swimming pool would be possible? Parents storm your schools and demand to be told the details.

Developers your property price will fall if schools are judged inadequate.

Debbie Jamison Address supplied