Ryde Connector A Community Newsletter from Victor Dominello MP
December 2017
New School Plans I want to share with you some great news for our local community. Recently, I announced with Premier Gladys Berejiklian that the NSW Government has entered into an exclusivity agreement with the owners of the Peter Board High School site to buy back the land for the purposes of building a new high school. We are also exploring the opportunity to build a new primary school in Macquarie Park. This will be resolved once the Department of Planning and Environment’s Macquarie Park master plan is finalised. I will update you on this opportunity when the plan is finalised. Our community was devastated when the Labor Government decided to close Peter Board in 1998 and then sold the property in 2006. For years I have been working hard behind the scenes to return Peter Board to public hands, and I am so pleased to see the land returned to our local community and cannot wait to see it transformed into a new high school. Our schools are the backbone of this community, and providing this vital infrastructure will allow our students to thrive into the future. We are delivering for schools in Ryde as part of the NSW Government’s $4.2 billion investment in building and upgrading schools, including:
1. A new high school in Meadowbank 2. A new primary school in Meadowbank 3. A new high school in Macquarie Park – Exploration of a new primary school in Macquarie Park, subject to finalisation of the master plan 4. A new primary school in Smalls Road 5. A new Catholic high school as part of the Ivanhoe Estate refurbishment
This is brilliant news for Ryde, and with the Premier being one of Peter Board’s former students, I know she is dedicated to seeing a school returned to service our community. As always, if there is ever anything I can do to assist you with state government related matters, please do not hesitate to call me on (02) 9808 3288 or at ryde@ parliament.nsw.gov.au Yours sincerely
6. Upgrades to Denistone East Public School 7. Upgrades to Kent Road Public School 8. Upgrades to West Ryde Public School
The Hon. Victor Dominello MP Member for Ryde