WHILE green issues are obviously important for our future, these have to be balanced with other more immediate demands, such as that of education.
It would appear that in the case of Wheldrake Primary School, children's educational needs are of secondary importance to renewable energy (School revamp scheme shelved, The Press, September 20).
The failure to grant planning permission to a much-needed school building project on the basis it isn't "green enough" can do nothing other than to degrade the standing of the political classes.
Funding for the project is both time-dependent and limited, such that there is now a very real possibility that the whole scheme will be lost.
Who would wish to explain and justify this to the parents, and their children who will, as a result, continue to be taught in temporary buildings. Is this a green sacrifice worth making?
Richard Rawet, Derwent Park, Wheldrake.
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