This does show what a lack of joined up thinking Lewisham has.

Fairlawn school is but a few metres up the road, is packed to the rafters and if it had space, the management team is more than up to the task of running a larger school. The nursery annexe to the school is relatively distant which does cause difficulties to parents.

If Lewisham thought it through, and provided Hamilton Lodge to Fairlawn to house both the nursery and, say, the infant school, then it would allow expansion to full 2 form entry, providing more sorely needed primary spaces, without Lewisham having to agree to Free school or academy status as Fairlawn is committed to remaining LEA.

Is there anything we can do to perhaps make Lewisham think the above is there own idea, and start putting the process in motion.

Then the existing nursery annexe could potentially be used as temporary accommodation - which with it being closer to the town centre, closer to the transport links and probably better monitored, may be better for the community as a whole?