A Minns Labor Government will develop a plan for the future school infrastructure needs of the greater Campbelltown region to ensure that the facilities for educational needs of existing and future students in Campbelltown’s south are not ignored.
Labor’s plan will assess future infrastructure needs, including land requirements, new schools, school upgrades and new support classes.
This will include identifying the school needs of new developments in Mt Gilead, Appin and North Appin – where the NSW Government announced a land release of 19,000 new homes.
The NSW Liberal Government has refused to commit to any new schools as part of the Glenfield to Macarthur Corridor Strategy and have not released details about any potential upgrades to existing schools.
“There are thousands more people who will call south Campbelltown and Appin home in the not-to-distant-future, yet the NSW Liberals have failed invest in, and plan for, new or upgraded local schools,” says Greg Warren, the Labor member for Campbelltown and shadow minister for Western Sydney.
“Education infrastructure is a necessity, not an afterthought.
“NSW Labor will ensure that the educational needs of both existing and future residents are planned and catered for adequately.”
NSW Labor deputy leader and shadow minister for education Prue Car says the NSW Liberal Government “has shown that it can’t be trusted to plan for the future of growing communities’’.
“Unfortunately, for those moving into south Campbelltown and Appin, the prospect of new or upgraded local public schools are nothing but a mirage.
“Failing to plan is planning to fail, which is why Labor will develop a plan to ensure rapidly growing suburbs are not forgotten.”
Mr Warren is pictured above during a visit to a local school.
