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Speaker 1 (00:04):
In Balcom Hills for new students and even newer classroom
one of two dozen now opened as part of a
forty two million dollar expansion of Matthew Pierce Public School
for its twelve hundred students. It means twenty three demountables
(00:24):
are now.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Gone basic infrastructure that needs to be built for fast
growing communities, but.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
At schools from Carlingford to Castle Hill, dozens remain, in
some cases temporary for more than a decade.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
We are delivering six hundred extra classrooms across the Northwest.
We are playing a game of whack a mole where
we're just trying to build the infrastructure that should have
been built ten years ago.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
While it's being built. Box Hill Public School now has
a prefab place for kindy to year two. The government
says improvement works in the coming years we'll see hundreds
of demountables removed from schools the city. There are concerns
the building plans are not enough for a part of
Sydney expected to do more to boost housing supply.
Speaker 4 (01:08):
So we've really got this problem. We're using a sandbag
to stop a tsunami.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
The hill Shire Mare says for areas like box Hill,
the population forecasts have almost doubled.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
According to our calculations, we need an extra fourteen schools
to meet the current population, but also to meet the
growth as well. It's coming.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
Paul Kaddak, seven News