DEVELOPERS of the new housing estate on the Kodak site wish to swap the proposed locations of the primary school and a community hub to ensure the former is built in time.

Land Securities has applied to Harrow Council to revise its approved planning permission for the residential redevelopment of the Harrow View land.

If the alterations are approved, the school would now be sited in the south-east corner, off Headstone Drive, next to a health centre and small parade of shops and adjacent to the rear of the Waverley Industrial Estate.

The community hub, comprising some sort of leisure complex and a community centre, would instead be built next to a new roundabout to be installed in Harrow View.

This change would bring the school, which has been given a new indicative L-shaped building on plans, forward into an earlier construction phase and thus enable it to open on time to meet demand.

Read our previous story on the proposed school: 

Peter Mail, development manager for the London portfolio at Land Securities, said: “We are very keen to progress the redevelopment of the site and bring forward new jobs, homes and community facilities.

“Making these revisions to the application will allow us to deliver a new primary school and enable a rapid start to regenerating the site. It would be great to see local people at information sessions in Zaskin College, Marlborough House, Station Road, Harrow, on Thursday, April 3 between 5pm and 9pm, and Friday, April 4 between 4pm and 8pm to tell them about the site and our plans.”

The primary school has been earmarked for occupation by a new Harrow View Primary School proposed by a consortium of Harrow’s high schools and their head teachers.

It would be a mixed non-denominational primary school opening in September 2016 with 30 children in a year group and equipped with a centre for 12 children with autistic disorders who need additional support, and would, according to the school travel plan submitted by Land Securities, boast a maximum of 630 children and 55 staff,

Land Securities’ application is due to be considered in June by the council’s planning committee. The consortium seeks parental support as part of its bid to the Department for Education before April 25 and for more information click here.