I attended the meeting this evening. The building is underoccupied for practical reasons and is one of the more costly premises to run and maintain. The proposal is to relocate the specialist workshops to Granville Park and some facilities to Brockley Rise but to cease services at Kirkdale however the plans for the building itself are still at the early stages. There are discussions under way with the local primary school in respect of expansion onto that site. Its good that a mixed education site could be an option for the foreseeable future (
assuming the funding for school expansion can be made available ) It may not however be for ever as if they can reprovide the school on the site its not impossible that evening classes could still continue there on the same premises or that the building could itself be shared.

I do think things could be a lot worse ; Brockley Rise will still provide the service for the forseeable future and we could have lost that. Given the shortage of primary school places in the area extending existing schools in this way could well meet the need without having to go down the free school route.