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reported on 24 April 2013 that London's Mayor Boris
Johnson, who at the beginning of the year had raised major concerns about the idea of building on Lake Farm, would not intervene in Council plans to build a school on three hectares of green belt land, at the eastern end of Lake Farm Country Park.
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land approximately 60 acres in size fringed by trees and the
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for use by the parishioners of Hayes. In 1814 the land was
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