Parents and residents will soon learn the fate of a new primary school planned for Shortlands.

An application to build a two form entry primary school, for 420 pupils, was submitted to Bromley Council on behalf of The Harris Foundation.

Proposals for the free school, which would be on the site of Kingswood House, Mays Hill Road, would involve demolishing all existing buildings to build the two storey school.

Updated plans would also include 22 parking spaces.

However, a number of residents have objected to the plans, with approximately 80 letters of objection out of around 100.

The grievances cited are the impact of traffic in the area, the lack of space for children, the parking pressures it will introduce and the environmental impact.

In addition, The Shortland’s Residents Association has submitted a 41 page document to the council opposing plans.

Their mains points for refusal mirror those of the residents, but also address noise pollution, the extensive construction work needed to build it, the unsustainability of the project and the unsuitability of the site as a whole for a school.

An excerpt from the document states: "The Kingswood House site is completely unsuitable for the development of a primary school with the proposed very high density of pupils at 420."

Yet there are calls for the school to be built to ease pressure on school places in the area, which the same document also acknowledges, stating: "It is accepted that there is an urgent need to find sufficient school places for children in the Borough of Bromley."

The case officer for the application has recommended it for approval - subject to a number of conditions and legal agreements - also recognising the considerable traffic impact it will have, stating: "The highways impacts of the proposal may be considered acceptable, particularly in light of the other benefits of the scheme including the clearly urgent requirement for school places."

Currently, Harris Shortlands is housed on a temporary site in Westmoreland Road, Shortlands, with room for around 60 pupils.

The Harris Foundation claims that without the school, which opened in September 2014, a number of children may not have received a school place in Bromley.

Mum-of-three and teacher herself, 38-year-old Sally Spence, from Beckenham, whose four-year-old attends Harris Shortlands, said: "When we came to apply for a primary school place for my son, we applied for the six nearest schools to our home but didn't get a place at any of them. Without Harris Shortlands, he wouldn't have a place at all."

Terry Parkin, Executive Director of Bromley Council's Education, Care and Health Services, also recognises the critical need for school places in the area, adding: "If places at Harris Primary Academy Shortlands had not have been available there would have been 55 children in the Shortlands area without an offer of a school place."

Should the planning application be approved, the school would move into the permanent premises, which is aimed to be open by September 2015.

Fiona Kelly, Executive Principal of the Harris Federation, said: "We are very keen to work with Bromley Council and local residents to make this site work as a new and successful school.

"We want to provide a high-quality permanent school for our current pupils and the many other young families who will soon be looking for a local school place for their children."

The application is to be decided by Bromley Council's Plans Sub-Committee on Thursday November 6, at 7pm, at Bromley Civic Centre in Stockwell Close.