VIDEO - LEWISHAM: Angry mums take to roof in protest at school closure (From This Is Local London)

VIDEO - LEWISHAM: Angry mums take to roof in protest at school closure

10:28am Thursday 23rd April 2009 in News

ANGRY mothers are demanding a school earmarked for demolition be re-opened following the decision to grant the building listed status.

Lewisham Bridge Primary School, in Elmira Street, Lewisham, will be replaced with an all-age foundation school on the same site, due to open fully in spring 2011.

But Lewisham Council plans to demolish the school this summer have been put on hold following the decision to grant the building Grade II listed status.

Today is the first day pupils have been forced to attend school at another site in Deptford and around four angry mothers have taken to the roof of Lewisham Bridge in protest.

Eleanor Davies, of Ermine Road, Lewisham, sends her five-year-old son Oliver to the school and is one of the mothers currently protesting.

She says she is furious pupils are being moved to the Mornington Centre, in Stanley Street, before full planning permission has been granted.

The 40-year-old said: “We feel the council doesn’t listen to us and so we felt we have just got to do this to make them take notice.

“We are saying to them, when they let the kids come back to this school, then we will come down.”