Student Des Crowther, head of jazz Kevin Brady, student parent Catherine Griffin, Newpark Academy of Music executive director Hilda Chan, Royal Academy of Music director Deborah Kelleher and parent David Brophy have come together with others to fight the sudden closure of the Newpark Academy of Music, located in Blackrock. Photograph: Chris Maddaloni
The plan involves moving the school from Melfield House on the campus of Newpark Comprehensive School to new premises 3km away, at 118 Rock Road, Booterstown. The academy would remain in Melfield House for another academic year, pending planning permission and a fire cert. The proposal involves untying the governance structure of the academy’s company limited by guarantee from the comprehensive, appointing a new board and retaining its not-for-profit charitable status.
Located since 1989 beside Newpark Comprehensive, the two facilities are entwined in various ways, including the school’s students taking classes in the academy next door at reduced rates. Moving premises will sever the neighbourly link between them. The proposed new premises are across the road from Booterstown Dart station, and very close to St Andrew’s College, a private school in Booterstown.
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