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The News Line: News Monday, 10 February 2014 Sulivan teachers, pupils & parents lobby council

A section of the over 200-strong lobby of Downing Street by parents, pupils and teachers of Sulivan Primary School demanding that their excellent school stay open and not be demolished for a free school

Teachers, parents and pupils are lobbying a full Cabinet meeting of Hammersmith and Fulham Council, which starts at 6pm tomorrow at Hammersmith Town Hall, west London.

They are fighting the planned closure of Sulivan Primary School in Fulham.

Sulivan School deputy chair of governors Peter Craig told News Line: ‘The Special Education and Children’s Services Select Committee met on 5 February to reconsider the Conservative cabinet’s decision to close Sulivan Primary School.

‘The committee overturned the decision by majority of 7 to 6. It was the first time in Hammersmith and Fulham Council’s history a Select Committee has ever done that.

‘This suggests to everyone involved (except the Cabinet) that the decision is wrong in so many ways.

‘The Borough’s Conservative Cabinet will now meet at a hastily arranged Special Cabinet Meeting on 10th February where they are obliged to review their decision.

‘Sadly as the people who are reviewing are the same people who came up with the half-cocked idea in the first place so the outcome is unlikely to be in our favour.

‘This is a small victory for the children, parents and teachers battling to save their wonderful Sulivan Primary School.

‘The Conservative Administration now needs to come clean and explain why it is being so underhand in its determination to shut this school.

‘Sadly, despite the avalanche of substantiated objections from pupils, teachers, parents and local residents it is almost certain that the 100 per cent Conservative cabinet will vote to continue with its ill-conceived, highly controversial and wholly undemocratically endorsed decision.’