The former Yorkshire Bank field behind Moortown Primary School has recently been sold to a developer who has outline planning consent to build a small number of houses on the site.

Throughout the consultation and design process, the governing body of Moortown Primary School worked with Moortown Community Group, Lime Tree Community Trust, our local ward councillors and the developers. The school and parents were led to believe at all stages that some provision for the school would be made in any planning application submitted.

Last autumn, outline planning consent was granted and the above groups all came together to give input to the Stakeholder Workshop held in November 2013. Again, we were led to believe that a portion of the land would be used for housing and the remaining land (around eight acres) would be given to Leeds City Council with some of it becoming a public park and some it being for the school.

Unfortunately all our hard work and campaigning seems to have been ignored.

The park is planned to be an informal grassland area. As such, it is unlikely that our school will be able to make use of it for activities such as sports day or organised sports as we do now.

The governing body and parents feel that the current proposals will be detrimental to the children of Moortown Primary School. We ask you to join us in raising objections to the plans when they are submitted on the grounds that the school has lost access to private green space and our sports provision will be adversely impacted.

We are not asking for all the land. We fully support the provision of a public park. However, there is enough land available for the school to have some dedicated space and for there to be a park for the whole community to enjoy.