Rye Primary School, latterly, the Lower School, was built in the 1930s. This would have been paid for by the government and sustained by the ratepayers of Rye. Some thirty years ago it was closed, and twenty-five years ago burnt down. It has remained unoccupied. It belongs to Rye, though owned by, I presume, East Sussex County Council and managed by Rother.
The mayor is right to pursue the possibility of the construction of social housing. This will of course take years unless someone with gravitas can arrange to sit next to the new secretary of housing at a dinner. Until such time as the site is developed it could be cleared, so creating much needed car parking.
We will recall that a number of fields around Rye have been used and the beauty of this site is that it is hard standing. The revenue from the car park could be used toward worthy projects in Rye. Am I being horribly naive?
