An east London council has sent construction workers in the middle of the night to dismantle a wooden structure protecting a “school street”.
Children at Chisenhale primary in Bow arrived on Thursday morning to find the structure and play space outside the school entrance gone.
Last month children saw off workers in a standoff when a parent spotted men in hi-vis jackets arriving to dismantle the structure. It is part of a wider dispute over traffic reduction measures near the school after the mayor of Tower Hamlets, Lutfur Rahman, failed to renew school street legislation restricting cars at drop-off and pickup times.
Rupert George, who has a child at the school, said the streets nearby were no longer safe for pupils arriving and leaving. “They have removed the play space structures that we built on two roads and just shoved the fences back to the pavements.
