One of the borough’s most over-subscribed schools has been given the green-light to expand.

Cheam Common Infant School will provide places for 30 extra children from September this year, after Sutton Council granted it planning permission to build a new classroom.

Chair of Governors Noel McEvilly said: “We are looking forward to the challenges the expansion will bring.

“We are confident we have the capacity and structures in place to continue to deliver our very successful caring approach to outstanding education for all our pupils.”

The school, which will increase from three forms to four forms of entry, is one of five set to expand in 2012.

Councillor Kirsty Jerome, the council’s executive member for education and schools, said the new places would particularly benefit families living in nearby Worcester Park, which has seen a 50 per cent increase in births during the last decade.

She added she would continue to lobby central government for funding in order to create more primary school places in the borough.

“It’s absolutely crucial that we’re able to provide places for children at local schools,” she said.

Last week the Sutton Guardian reported the case of twins Mia and Hannah Hendry, who have been waiting four years for a primary school place, and could be forced to separate.

The borough has seen a huge over-subscription of its 41 primary schools, prompting the council’s chief executive, Niall Bolger, to controversially call for a change in class size policy.