Interesting development in Sydney’s South:
When citizens make enough noise and stand up for their rights decisions can be reversed.
Update from SMH: Â Minister moves to buy back Islamic school site
By FATIMA MRAD
THE State Government will buy back the site of the proposed Islamic school in Bass Hill or “it will be acquired by compulsory acquisition”.
State MP for Bankstown Tony Stewart has announced that he has received advice from the Department of Education indicating a proposal to build a special school for students with a disability at the Johnston Road site adjoining Bass High School.
“I am advised that if the College is unwilling to dispose of the land, it will be acquired by compulsory acquisition,” Mr Stewart said.
Al Amanah College purchased the land from the Department in 2006, and a proposal to build a primary and secondary school for 1200 students was met with opposition from local residents and Bankstown Council, who cited several planning grounds as the reason for objection.
In May 2009, the Land and Environment Court ruled in favour of the school, and the judgment referred to whether Bankstown Council would have raised as many issues with the application had it been for an Anglican school.
Some background info from Garth on how the site was aquired:
Islamic Dirty Tricks
THE State Government has been forced to rewrite its own rules on the sale of public school land after claiming it was “duped” into selling off parts of a western Sydney school to a private college. More>>
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