A primary school looks likely to win the backing of councillors to accommodate pupils from a sister school for another year.
Two classes in each of the two youngest years, Reception and Year 1, at Avanti House School were hosted at Krishna-Avanti Primary School in Camrose Avenue, run by the same Avanti Schools Trust, for the 2012/13 academic year.
Governors at Krishna-Avanti Primary School applied to temporarily vary the conditions its 2008 planning permissions to allow the extra pupils to stay for the 2013/14 academic year and to allow people other than pupils and staff to use the school for an additional year while retaining the restriction on third parties hiring the premises.
Harrow Council planning committee is recommended to approve the changes on Wednesday.
Nitesh Gor, governor, said: “This is an extremely minor application. It’s procedural.”
He confirmed the number of Avanti House School pupils being hosted will stay at 120.
Some neighbours of the school are concerned, including Dr M Badi, of Appledore Close, Edgware, whose objection letter to the council said: “Such a proposal, if allowed, would further disrupt our weekends in addition to what we are already suffering, from traffic congestion every single morning.
“We can only imagine that such problems would be multiplied several fold in addition to the noise and other commotion if they start hosting other activities in out-of-school hours, evenings and weekends.”
Avanti House School, and its secondary-aged pupils, relocated over the summer from Harrow Teachers’ Centre in Tudor Road, Wealdstone, to the former Peterborough and St Margaret’s School in Common Road, Stanmore.
Krishna-Avanti Primary School is awaiting the outcome of its appeal to the Planning Inspectorate of the council’s planning committee’s decision to reject, in January, the complete removal of the same two restrictive conditions.
The school said the wording prevented it from holding the kind of parents’ evenings, plays, fetes and other fundraising other schools may freely do.
