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Deadline day today for affected residents to share their views with the council.

Just say why you feel like you do - positively or negatively.

You may have signed the petition but this is the way the council canvassed your opinion so please complete it.

It doesn't need an essay, just a few words saying why it's important to you (& your family)

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/?sm=FONxtHIZY75LcGzNTT0WJheEEqC6CyNGjVGumvRN5yw%3d

It only takes a few seconds - do it!

Am amzed how many have got involved in this.well happy on the results.and thankyou for your hard work and effort Liverpooltiger.
sent you more info in a pm .

Nice follow up piece from the Wirral Globe today, complete with details about the discussion meeting being held with concerned residents at Highfield Church at 6pm tomorrow night:

http://www.wirralglobe.co.uk/news/1...m_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=facebook

2250 signatures now - thank you for your continued support.

Great work.
I will keep you updated on any other progress.

Over 100 concerned citizens at the meeting on Tuesday night - we filled the main church

Lots of passion on show & people making it very clear about how we feel about our site & what we don't want!!

Next meeting will be on 13th February at 6:30 - council to advise venue.

All updates are on our Facbook page:

https://www.facebook.com/SaveRockFerryHighSchoolandenvirons?ref=ts&fref=ts

I'll also share the info on here.

As ever, thanks for the support

Excellent work, well done to you all. I have been following proceedings on Facebook.

Confirmed venue for follow up meeting with councillors & Frank Field, MP.

It's at 6:30pm on Friday, 13th February.

It's at the same venue as last time:

Highfield United Reformed Church

This is the big church at the cross roads of Rock Lane West with Highfield South & Highfield Road in Rock Ferry.

Hope to see you there & please tell your family, friends, neighbours & colleagues as we really do need a meeting full of people if we are to have any chance of saving the site for the community.

As ever, thank you for your support & keep sharing our petition too.

https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/save-rock-ferry-high-school-and-woodlands

All updates are on the Facebook Page:

https://www.facebook.com/SaveRockFerryHighSchoolandenvirons?ref=ts&fref=ts

Nearly time for the meeting to discuss the site's future. Tonight at 6:30 Highfield Church, Rock Ferry. Please spare an hour of your time & join us in conversation with the Council & Frank Field, MP.

We really hope they won't develop the site with housing but it's definitely the plan unless we stand up to the council & tell them that it's not what we want!

Please come along to the meeting if you can & make your views count.

If we don't act now the council will say there isn't any opposition & go ahead - & all that history & green space will be gone forever. 😕

Thank you for the support.

How did the meeting go?

On the whole, I think the meeting went well. Frank Field handled the meeting much better than Cllr McLoughlin did last time - as you'd expect - so much less confrontational this time. Audience spoke up & spoke well & got him to agree to chair another meeting on 13th. Same time & place.

The community were unmovable on the issue of keeping the listed building, the playing fields & woodlands plus the boundary walls etc but the council got some movement with people saying they would possibly accept the development of the school site but ONLY if the buildings were acceptable to the community eg: Limited number of Bungalows on footprint of school site. There were also discussions around the proposed youth centre in Birkenhead being considered for this site instead.

Personally I think it was too much to say any of the stuff around housing at this stage because I still think we should look to use the site for the community - plus, once you accept housing development as THE option, they can then build what they like & then say they couldn't attract the type of development they originally wanted! (A developer can challenge the type of housing but not opposition to no housing.)

They are also looking to open an entrance road to a proposed development into Highfield South so that will bring additional traffic problems.

Still, we've now got an executive committee with residents & councillors on it so that should help keep us in the loop going forwards.

I'll keep you all posted & hope to see you on the 13th March at Highfield Church at 6:30

Just a reminder that the latest Public Meeting on the future of the site is tomorrow evening, Friday, 13th March, at 6:30pm at Highfield Church (The big church on the crossroads of Highfield South & Rock Lane West.

Frank Field, MP, & the Rock Ferry councillors will be present to hear our views.

If this green space & its heritage is important to you, please come along & get your view across whilst you still have the chance!

Thank you for your support.

I attended this meeting tonight and I was shocked and disgusted at the behaviour of certain members of The Green Party(allegedly). In my opinion they hijacked this meeting to attack and barrack Frank Field. One woman ran screaming and shouting like she was demented to the point of being threatened she would be removed by the police.most of us residents just wanted to get on with the meeting but with these people couldn't. I think the majority of residents felt like me, appalled and saddened.I would just like to wish Frank Field well as he became unwell .

I too would like to wish Mr Field well. A very unfortunate end to the meeting

We will need to gather our thoughts & obviously re- convene as the meeting did not achieve any outcomes last night for understandable reasons.

I will say for the record & clarity though (....& I have no political allegiance) that the speakers you refer to do not represent the Green Party & are not members of that party although Mr Field did make that reference. I think it's important to be fair in that respect.

I haven't made any comment on site as I haven't seen any news on Mr Field's condition & I wouldn't wish to be inappropriate in the circumstances. However, I do have concerns that I will raise in due course in respect of the representation on the residents's committee & Mr Field's comments on his "do not reply" email - I am happy to state for the record that I have never been anything other than professional in my correspondence & I am happy to publish them if there is any doubt.

As I say, a strange meeting in many respects & unfortunate as ultimately, all we're seeking is a consensus approach to finding a solution for our site.

Thank you for attending & the comments. I appreciate you taking the time to do both.

Alison

Thank you Liverpool Tiger for your reply. If that group did not represent The Green Party then who ? I had an elderly lady sitting behind me that every time Frank Field spoke she bad mouthed him and she certainly appeared to be with this group, even when at the end I told her no- body was interested in Green Party issues just the subject we wanted to discuss and after further comments about Frank she got very angry telling me to shut up which I told her the same. Very unpleasant!.....Not getting at you LT but really would like to know who this group were ??? Thanks.