A full meeting of Bristol City Council will this evening hear the latest plans to turn the lower two floors of Bristol Central Library into a new primary school.
Cathedral Primary School wants to use the space, currently used for offices and storage, space, as a permanent home for their new free school.
The issue has prompted much heated debate at the start of a new school year which has seen one primary school in Redland move into a former police station.
Lateral thinking is needed to solve Bristol’s chronic shortage of school places, and if the archives and fabric of Central Library are not affected by the plans for the new school, why shouldn’t this plan be allowed to work?
I don’t understand all the negativity about this idea? I bet that not one of the naysayers has a child of pre-school age whose parents would rather like to be able to take them to a good school within walking distance of their house.
The author of this article is correct – if the library remains unaffected, then it’s a great plan.
Perhaps take all the books covered in dust and never borrowed to a warehouse on the Cumberland Basin. Plenty of shelf space there.
I know what I think is more important between a bright future for Bristol’s children and where books are stored.