I, in Low Bradfield, also pay Bradfield parish tax. This, however, does not go to the education department. Money collected by them goes to the running of the parish council and the upkeep of footpaths and parks in the parish.

I have sympathy with her that she lives within the parish boundary at Wadsley Park village but, Wisewood is her catchment school. This point, however, should be addressed to Sheffield city council and the local education authority who, in 1999, changed the catchment area for the Wadsley Park village from Bradfield school to Wisewood.

The change was challenged by Bradfield school and Bradfield parish but the local authority still went ahead. If that change had not happened, a part of £910,000 planning gain money paid by Bloor Homes to SCC would have been diverted to Bradfield school and the chances are that the fight that we are having now would not be happening.

Bradfield school would have had a chance to improve its facilities and slowly absorb the children from Wadsley Park village. Bradfield school would be full and would not have been an option of appeasement to the parents of Wisewood when they were consulted about the closure of their school.

However, that money did not go to Bradfield, it went to Wisewood, which is now being closed, surely that is a waste of money. I feel that the local authority are at fault and need to explain where that money went. They also need to explain to all the parents in the parish, why now they wish to move those pupils living in Wadsley Park village back to Bradfield when they didn’t want them to go to Bradfield initially in 1999.

Shaz Thompson, Sub Postmistress, Low Bradfield