{"id":8039,"date":"2014-10-31T11:49:19","date_gmt":"2014-10-31T11:49:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2014\/10\/31\/village-opposes-new-school\/"},"modified":"2014-10-31T11:49:19","modified_gmt":"2014-10-31T11:49:19","slug":"village-opposes-new-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2014\/10\/31\/village-opposes-new-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Village Opposes New School"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3>A village in Buckinghamshire intends to evict a free Sikh school<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"1\" align=\"middle\" width=\"467\" vspace=\"10\" hspace=\"3\" height=\"184\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/Image\/Gallery\/Khalsa-school-467x184.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nVillagers in Stoke Poges are taking legal action against Khalsa Secondary Academy to prevent it\u2019s permanent residence in the area. They wish to overturn the decision in favour of the school\u2019s location made by Communities Secretary Eric Pickles.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nThey argue the narrow roads of the village will not be able to handle traffic brought along once the school starts running.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nIn addition to this, South Bucks District Council is appealing against the Secretary\u2019s decision to allow the school to stay in the village. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nThe council\u2019s cabinet member for sustainable development, Roger Reed said, \u201cWe do not undertake legal action lightly. Eric Pickles has made a bad decision and we need to take action.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nThe issue first arose after the school was given temporary use of a disused office block after they were informed there was no appropriate space in a closer location in Slough. After being given temporary housing whilst they sought a permanent base, the Department of Education (DfE) stated the school would remain indefinitely in the village.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nThe district council objected to this in a hearing chaired by an independent inspector citing, \u201cthe severity of the noise impact on local residents\u201d. His claim was rejected by Mr. Pickles however.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nMost of the pupils attending the school, conceived by the Slough Sikh Education Trust, will be transported by bus into the village every morning from Slough. The office block site was reportedly bought by the DfE for \u00a34.5m.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nVillagers reveal they have been labelled, \u201cwhite middle-class nimbys or even racists\u201d as a result of their protest against the school.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nThe academy opened with 180 pupils in September and will move up to housing 850 pupils. It operates as an all inclusive school encouraging academic achievement and extracurricular activities.&#13;\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A village in Buckinghamshire intends to evict a free Sikh school &#13; Villagers in Stoke Poges are taking legal action against Khalsa Secondary Academy to prevent it\u2019s permanent residence in the area. They wish to overturn the decision in favour of the school\u2019s location made by Communities Secretary Eric Pickles. &#13; They argue the narrow [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}