The founders of a new primary school have submitted plans for temporary accommodation in a Brentford park, where they hope to eventually build a permanent home.
Floreat Brentford Primary School, which is due to open this September, has applied for permission to erect two single storey blocks in Brent Lea Recreation Ground, beside the hard play courts.
Pupils would use the temporary huts for two years, should the plans be approved, while a permanent structure with space for 420 pupils is built on neighbouring land in the park, which is just off Syon Road.
Floreat Education's plans for a new secondary school were approved by the Government last September. It was oversubscribed by 10% for its first year and has just sent offers to the parents of 60 children due to make up its first cohort of pupils.
Aisling McKeever was this month appointed as the first headteacher of the new free school. She is joining from Fielding Primary School, in Ealing, where she has worked for the last 12 years and is currently deputy headteacher.
Floreat's managing director James O'Shaughnessy said: "There's a strong desire for a new primary school locally. I think parents with children of any age can see there's a need for a new non-religious primary school here, especially with all the development taking place in the area.
"There is understandably some concern about the school being in a park but that site was only chosen after extensive searches failed to identify a more suitable plot.
"We want to help the council make the facilities in the rest of the park much better than at present, and to open up the school facilities for community usage outside school times."
The temporary buildings and hard play area would take up about 520m2 of the park - roughly the size of two tennis courts. Councillors are due to consider the application this July, just two months before the school is due to open.
Floreat Education is aiming to submit plans for the permanent school building this September, in the hope they will be approved before Christmas.
The permanent building and its grounds would occupy just under half of the park, it is envisaged, with Hounslow Council using the rent from the land to fund improvements to the remainder of the site.
The council has promised to consult local residents about what changes they would like to see made to the remaining parkland should the permanent school building get the go-ahead.
