New school for Rickmansworth to open in September 2013 (From Watford Observer)

• "I'm saddened by the impending loss of more green land for this and other schools required in the area.
  
  Bang goes another swathe of green land - did anybody notice? Does anybody care?
  
  Why not knock down William Penn leisure centres and some houses to build the new school? Re-instate William Penn school as it was. It was well positioned for this area in need.
  
  Or rebuild Durrants on the site where Durrants was (now all houses too)?
  
  Maybe one day the councils will be clever enough to realise that removing a school and building houses produces more school-age children and therefore it is not acceptable to redevelop schools into housing. They should have kept the land fallow for a school later on. That would have been clever.
  
  A housing scheme built on green belt or just green fields would probably not get permission and would have residents up in arms. However, knock down a school and build houses on it, wait a few years then complain there are not enough schools and you can build on green belt and green fields because it is necessary and in the interests of the community.
  
  So, are our local politicians incompetent, stupid or corrupt in allowing this abuse of our green fields?
  
  I suspect a combination of all three.
  
  Politicians should care more about their local area and less about their party when deciding these issues. In general, we need a brighter set of politicians to look after our locality."
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