IAM very much concerned that the governors of St Wilfrid's C of E High School, Blackburn, are proposing to carry out a feasibility study with a view to relocating on the Feniscliffe playing fields site (LET, March 14).
Together with my vice-chairman, Alderman W Henshall, as education chairman in the 1960s, I was responsible for persuading the then County Borough Education Authority to purchase the site from the Witton Park Estate.
The 16.5 acres of tip-land were reclaimed and converted into playing fields for the use of the newly-formed St Wilfrid's school and the children of Feniscliffe and Bower House Fold.
The reclamation of the site is something I felt justly proud of and I believe that building a school on this land would be a betrayal of trust of the children and residents of the area.
Regardless of the results of the feasibility study, which I consider to be a waste of money, I hope that the local planning authority will refuse planning permission.
LORD TAYLOR of Blackburn, House of Lords.
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