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Academy bungle could scupper project for a year

PLANS for a controversial city academy on the site of a primary school descended into farce this week with the very real possibility the project could be postponed by a year.
Planning permission for the Diocese of London-sponsored academy was quashed in the High Court on Wednesday.
This is because the Town Hall forgot to ask English Heritage to comment on the plans for the academy, which have caused a bitter division in the community. English Heritage must be consulted on any plans which affect a conservation zone.
This, however, means that the deadline imposed by the schools adjudicator for planning permission to be granted – September 30 – is technically missed by six weeks. The planning process must therefore start from scratch and the schools adjudicator must again consider the scheme.
The academy dream began to unravel after a lawsuit brought by two residents claimed Islington Council had failed to consult English Heritage over the scheme.
Rani Bibi and Terry Powers, who brought legal action, argue the 1460-pupil academy would ruin the setting and character of the conservation area that surrounds the school.
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Sweetener leaves bad taste

TENANTS from an Angel estate have turned down an opportunity to stay the night in a luxury £200-a-night hotel to discuss plans to transform their run down homes.
Islington council had been prepared to put 21 tenant organisers from the Packington Estate up at the West Lodge Hotel, in Potters Bar, at a cost to council taxpayers of almost £4,000 for the night.
The object had been to examine the bids from three rival housing associations on how they could re-build the estate.
The Packington was condemned as unsafe in 2003 after surveyors found it was built too high and was at risk from gas explosions.
Under the new plans, the estate will be levelled and rebuilt with a percentage of private housing.

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Cheap tickets give us taste of the past

SOMETHING didn’t feel quite right as I hurried along a busy Seven Sisters Road on the way to the England...
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