Victoria’s school building authority failed to tell the residents of a densely populated Brunswick neighbourhood about its plan to build a three-storey school in the area. The construction crew broke the news the day the works started. | adamlcarey
Sydney Road Community School is being relocated from its current location to a site on Merri Street, Brunswick.
The school building authority blamed human error for its failure to inform affected residents of the project before works started and apologised, but said it was too late to make any changes based on community feedback. The Victorian School Building Authority informed traders and residents in the immediate vicinity of the current school site of the relocation project late last year, but failed to tell those based near the new school site until months later.
“During the meeting they laid it on fairly thick, they basically said by us complaining we are going to hold up the school.”“We know the school plays a valuable role in our community, and we’re not opposed to the site being developed,” she said. An architect for the project said in the online consultation produced in December that the school’s modular three-storey building would house specialist classes, “including the junk band where students make their own instruments and then play in a slightly informal orchestra”.
But a “Good Neighbour Guide” developed for schools by the Victorian School Building Authority warns that projects can still go off the rails if affected community members are not informed in advance.
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