EXTRA primary places will be created in Southall and Acton in September, helping to ease the pressures on neighbouring schools.

Ealing Council’s cabinet agreed this week to invest £5m in permanently expanding Beaconsfield Primary, Southall.

This September, the school will temporarily increase the number of reception children admitted from 30 to 60.

However, in 2016, this arrangement will become permanent and the school will admit two classes of 30 children every year, eventually creating an extra 210 places across the school.

A new primary school will also open in Acton this September. Ark Byron Primary Academy will admit 60 reception pupils each year, eventually creating 420 spaces when full.

The school will temporarily share premises with Ark Priory Academy, Acton, while the new building is constructed near Acton Park.

Cabinet members also heard that work is continuing to create more high school places in the borough, including supporting free school applications in Ealing and Acton and expanding existing secondary schools, where appropriate.

Cllr Binda Rai, cabinet member for children and young people, said: “Our focus has now widened to include high schools and we are now putting our plans into action.

“It will ensure there are enough places for when our primary-aged children move to secondary school.

“Elthorne Park High School and Brentside High School, both in Hanwell, have already been approved for further expansion.”