Author: Wansteadium

New estate agent on the way

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Early speculation that the new ‘flat iron’- style building at Snaresbrook would become a Foxtons turns out to have been wrong – but it is becoming an estate agent.

Signs put up at the office on Wednesday show it will open as a Keaton’s during the summer.

With house prices in London reporting a 25% rise in the past year it’s hardly surprising there is a boom in agents, but this does mean there are at least half a dozen in Wanstead. The office has been standing empty for more than a year since it was built.

Is Wanstead’s black hole filled?

Parents of young children living in central Wanstead who faced having to take them to school in Barkingside may be about to celebrate a breakthrough – an extra reception class is being added at Nightingale Primary School to cope with what has been termed a “bulge year”.

The new class will mean the school will have four reception classes. To cope with the increased numbers Redbridge is funding two new brick-built classrooms, one of which will replace a temporary classroom. Extra staff will also be recruited, and there is funding for new laptops, a larger entrance and, touchingly, extra water fountains.

In May we reported that parents living in Nightingale Lane, Grosvenor Road, The Avenue, and Leicester Road had been told their children could not go to school in Wanstead, even though there are four primary schools relatively close. Several were told they could have places in Barkingside, though there were twins in one family who were given places in two different schools.

One of the affected parents told us that the difficulties of getting her daughter to and from a distant school meant she or her partner might have to give up work.

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