HC Deb 07 February 1995 vol 254 cc251-2 10.26 pm
Mr. Robert N. Wareing (Liverpool, West Derby)

I beg leave to present a petition signed by 865 residents of the Croxteth country park estate in Liverpool. Once complete, that private residential housing estate will contain 5,000 homes. However, it lacks a primary school and many of the children must travel to one of 61 other primary schools for their education, 40 of them travelling four miles to a school outside Liverpool in the borough of Knowsley. The petition reads:

To the House of Commons.

The Petition of the Residents of the Croxteth Country Park Estate in Liverpool,

Declares that the rapid development of the Croxteth Country Park Estate to accommodate 2,660 new homes necessitates the provision of a new primary school.

The Petitioners therefore request that the House of Commons prevails upon the Secretary of State for Education to approve the provision of the Joint Christian Primary School proposed by the Liverpool Roman Catholic Archdiocese and the Church of England Diocese for which there is an undoubted need.

And the Petitioners remain.

To lie upon the Table.