Because of West Sussex County Council's reorganisation of Crawley schools, the only school in the first neighbourhood of the New Town is about to be closed.
Once that land goes, there will be no spare land in West Green so there can never be another school in that neighbourhood.
The population age in that area is changing rapidly as the original Newtowners move out and new families move in.
But the council says the original junior school, whose premises were lent to Crawley College in 1985, now belongs to the college although in the Eighties the council promised it would be handed back if it was needed as a primary school.
A broken promise - if it can happen in Crawley, it can happen anywhere. If you feel the school should not close, write to a county councillor at County Hall, Chichester.
-Sheila Parr, Retired Teacher, West Green Primary School 1958-85
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