PARENTS DEMAND ACTION
OVER SCHOOL PLACES
Angry parents from Rickmansworth and sur-
rounding areas of Three Rivers packed into a
Mill End Primary School last week to listen to an
action group demanding an extra school to be
built in the area.
An extremely concerned and frustrated group
of parents from across Rickmansworth, Chorley-
wood, Croxley Green, Maple Cross and Mill End
have joined forces to urge those responsible for
providing local education services to recognise
and act upon the rapidly deteriorating ability of
children living in the area to access local, quality
secondary education.
The parents make up „The WD3 Parents Action
Group‟, which is behind a series of recent actions
designed to raise local awareness of lack of sec-
ondary school places available to children from
across the area.
The group held a meeting at St Peter‟s School, any local school.
Mill End, which was attended by almost 200 The meeting was attended by local figures
people, to voice concerns related to school places including David Gauke, MP, representatives
in the area. It is expected that around 13% of from Hertfordshire County and Three Rivers
pupils applying for secondary education in Rick- District Council, including Leader Ann Shaw.
mansworth in 2020 will not be able to get into Additionally, the WD3 Parents Action Group is
seeking a commitment from HCC that local
school places should be reserved for local chil-
dren, and will be campaigning for the current
Hertfordshire School Admission Procedure to be
amended from three choices to six, to pro-
vide parents with the same number of choices of
school as out-of-county applicants.
Mark Sutton, Chairman, WD3 Parents Action
Group, said before the meeting: “HCC‟s recent
Meeting the Rising Demand for School places,
makes very grim reading for anybody who lives
in the South West Hertfordshire area and who
has children who will need access to secondary
education in the near and long term future.
“The lack of community controlled
secondary schools locally means that
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