Nursery World - Kiddi Caru to close Earls Court nursery

Kiddi Caru’s Earls Court nursery is to close at the end of next month as the lease on the building is not being renewed by the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS).

The Kiddi Caru nursery is based in the Empress State building in Earl’s Court

The nursery, based at Empress State building in Earl’s Court, West London, and operated by Les Petits Chaperons Rouges (LPCR), will close on 20 March.

LPCR notified parents of the closure in mid-January, giving them just six weeks to find alternative childcare.

However, a letter from the Deputy Mayor for Policing and Crime confirms that the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) which owns the building in which the nursery is based, told Kiddi Caru in June 2018 it would not be renewing the lease after June 2019.

The MPS subsequently granted Kiddi Caru three extensions to the lease as per the nursery group’s requests.

The letter sent to London Assembly member Caroline Pidgeon on 4 February, confirms that the MPS decided not to renew the lease as they plan on turning the building into a Counter Terrorism and Organised Crime Hub and that the ‘continued operation of the nursery is not possible due to the need to revise the facilities to provide security around the building’.

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