A recently submitted planning application to build a multi-million pound new school in Norbiton is now in the council’s hands.

Free school provider Chapel St has already opened Kingston Community School on a temporary site in Acre Road.

The group, which operates under a Christian ethos, now hope to move the school to a permanent site at Kingstons House in Coombe Road, Norbiton, if the planning application is approved, by September 2017.

A spokesman for Chapel St said: "We are excited about the plans for the permanent home for Kingston Community School.

"We are thrilled to be working with our community partners, parents and families to ensure that we can provide the best home for an excellent education for the children of our local area."

Joining the multiple storey school would be 25 homes.

Kingston Council first announced in June 2014 that the Government had approved the community school.

Councillor Tom Davies, opposition spokesman for schools, said: “There is a significant need for primary school places in the borough – but one has to question the wisdom of the Education Funding Agency, who paid £10.5m for Kingstons House without even surveying it beforehand.

"And subsequently discovered the staircases and corridors were too narrow for a school, they now plan to spend a further £7.6m on rebuilding on a site that has fundamental limitations on a confined site.”

A spokeswoman for the council said the consultation on the application was ongoing.