You read it here: the demolished wing of Dulwich Hospital

[Lee Scoresby]

. . . is to be rebuilt as another site for Haberdasher Askes School. Hot tip this, from the inside.

Many might feel the H A brand was well over-extended as it is, but it's a crazy free-market fantasy we live in, so here they come like another corporation with their product offering.

[KalamityKel]

Is this gossip or actual proof this is really now the case?

The Libdems and the council have been eyeing up the site for quite sometime but the land has not been theirs to play with...

[first mate]

Will that be alongside a community medical centre or is the medical side now to be scrapped? A site of this size has to offer something for all of the community not just one section. Fully appreciate we need more schools but we also need more healthcare especially for the elderly.

[JohnL]

I thought Melbourne Grove was moving there.

[first mate]

Lord help us, if true.

[*Bob*]

Lee Scoresby Wrote:

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> . . . is to be rebuilt as another site for

> Haberdasher Askes School. Hot tip this, from the

> inside.

I read it first on the thread in the family room - sixteen pages long with 17000 views

[Earl Aelfheah]

The area has a huge shortage of school places and there aren't many vacant sites large enough to accommodate a new secondary. I think this is good news. It's a big site, so I would think that there would be space for health care facilities too, but I guess we'll have to wait to see exactly what the plans are.

[LondonMix]

The proposal is for part of the site to be used for a school and part for a community medical centre.

[Earl Aelfheah]

Thanks Londonmix. Sounds good to me.

[nxjen]

LondonMix Wrote:

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> The proposal is for part of the site to be used

> for a school and part for a community medical

> centre.

Is there a strategic, coherent proposal for the site? The LibDems are working hard to ensure part of the land is used for a new secondary school but as KK has posted above, the land doesn't belong to them or the Council. Don't get me wrong, I fully appreciate the need for a new school and am supportive of the site being used for one IF there is sufficient land left over after the medical facility is built and the health needs of East Dulwich have been met.

[LondonMix]

http://www.southwark-libdems.org.uk/councillor_asks_government_to_rule_on_future_of_dulwich_hospital_site

Here is the information and the process. I think tomorrow is some sort of milestone in the process but am not 100% sure.

[Otta]

*Bob* Wrote:

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> Lee Scoresby Wrote:

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> > . . . is to be rebuilt as another site for

> > Haberdasher Askes School. Hot tip this, from

> the

> > inside.

>

> I read it first on the thread in the family room -

> sixteen pages long with 17000 views

Haha, that's exactly what I was thinking.

[KestonKid]

What is the state of play on the existing hospital building?

[eastdulwichhenry]

What kind of school is this going to be? Feepaying or free?

[LondonMix]

It's a state school opened via the free school program. It is planned to be co-ed, non-faith, and non-selective.

[Vik]

http://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?5,1297783

http://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?29,1229772

[dontpanic]

It would be a free school and as LondonMix says non faith and non selective, and co-ed.

Its a non-political steering committee leading the way with the secondary application and we have Haberdasher's Askes officially on board as a provider of the school in our applciation (as well as support form 500 local families so far). James Barber is the councillor who initiated the steering group - and he has put in a 'right to bid' application for the site. This is a very new way of asking Parliament to consider the use of government land - and the Dulwich Hospital site is the one of the first (if not the first) such applications - since it only came into existience in January. So we shall see what happens with it and whether this might enable a use for the site other than a developer buying and building residential - as could so easily happen.

Healthcare would still be part of the site in any event I think.