HEREFORDSHIRE Council has allocated £13.5 million to be spent at Aylestone School to improve facilities and increase the pupil numbers by 67 per cent.

They also intend to lower the age of admission to Broadlands Primary School, adding more pupils.

Aylestone Hill and particularly Broadlands Lane is an accident waiting to happen. 37 per cent of pupils and 100 per cent of teachers arrive and depart by car.

Parents arrive early afternoon searching for places to park, blocking in residents’ driveways and many simply sitting in cars with engines running. The morning drop-off is a free for all.

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The active travel plan trumpeted in the consultation document for these schools is little more than statistics and a bit of wishful thinking on the writer.

The council’s ‘school travel plan coordinator’ needs to get serious grown-up thinking and get pupils parents and teachers out of their polluting cars.

Close Broadlands Lane to pupil drop-off morning and afternoon.

Ban the college buses using Broadlands Lane. Get a daily walking bus from Aylestone Park.

It’s not rocket science, it just needs some fresh thinking and a willingness to accept the climate crisis declaration by Herefordshire Council is not going to solve itself unless everyone does their most to limit carbon emissions and save the planet for the young minds you are attempting to educate.

JEFFREY J HANCORN

Hereford

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