New Schools Planned, May 1966

A £600,000 schools building programme for Waltham Forest, for next financial year, has been submitted for Government approval by the Borough Education Committee.
Top priority, in the list of projects, is given to a new primary school in the Hall-Lane area of Chingford, designed to serve children who will be living on the 800 homes estate planned for the Chingford Hall site. Cost £75,000.
Alterations and additions to two High Schools - Leyton Boys and Chingford High--are also listed. Both schemes will cost £80,000,
Three new schools are planned - to replace Church Mead Infants, Leyton (£75,000) Henry Maynard Junior Boys and Girls Walthamstow (£100,000) and Thomas Gamuel Junior, Walthamstow (£100,000).
Also in the suggested work schedule are two new church schools to replace St. Joseph's (R.C.) primary, Leyton, and St. Mary's (R.C.) Primary, Walthamstow. Both projects will be financed by the Roman Catholic authorities,
Missing from the proposed programme for 1967-68 is the long delayed plan to rebuild Waltham Forest's "Cinderella " school - Chingford (C.of E.) Primary, in Kings Road.
But the Education Committee has called for a detailed report on the future development of the Church of England school to be considered at its next meeting.
The local committee is also seeking Ministerial approval to spend the £250.000 included in last year's building programme for a new school in Verulanam avenue Walthantstow - and at Tom Hood Technical School Leyton.
The replacement of Joseph Clark School for the Partially Sighted in Pretoria Avenue Walthamstow, by a new building close to Brookfield House School for the Physically Handicapped in Woodford Green, has also been suggested for the 1967-68 building programme.