Save Our Schools spokesman Trevor Cobbold said the move contradicted government policy and the community should be consulted on a wider range of uses for the site.

Last week the Government announced it would consider moving the Islamic School to a new, bigger site at the Canberra Institute of Technology's Weston campus.

The CIT horticultural school will vacate its Heysen Street campus in Weston for a new home in Bruce next year.

Community consultation on the site will begin next month but Mr Cobbold said the community should be allowed to consider a wider variety of uses for the Weston site.

The Government had already rejected a proposal to turn the site into a public education centre for students at risk of dropping out.

''We think that the wider process that ought to be used now is to... look at a wider range of options and not just have a consultation on whether it should be suitable for a private school,'' Mr Cobbold said.

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