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Education minister told get moving on Park Road site

Edge says new primary school in the east 'is her priority'

The education minister is being pressed to make a decision over the future of the Park Road site in Douglas.

The school there was closed eleven years ago and it was then demolished.

Douglas North MHK David Ashford says he was at a meeting in 2013 to hear ambitious plans proposed.

Now he and Douglas East MHK Joney Faragher say its high time the builders moved in:

In response, the minister says the site is part of the solution for primary school places in the East.

Julie Edge was pressed by some Keys members to do something with the town centre site - social housing or first time buyers' homes have been suggested.

But Ms Edge says education for young children is the priority:

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