Proposals from a Conservative parliamentary candidate to built two new secondary schools in north Kingston have been dismissed by his local party’s education spokesman.

The council’s executive committee decided in September to draw up plans for an eight form of entry secondary school on the North Kingston Centre site, but Conservative councillors instead supported a six form of entry school.

Richmond Park Conservative candidate Zac Goldsmith backed this, together with an expansion of Grey Court school in Ham, but last week called for a search to find other north Kingston sites in preparation for further increases in student numbers.

Citing the Ministry of Defence (MoD) owned The Keep as one possibility, he said: “We have got to think outside the box. If we don’t people will be panicked into accepting something they do not want, such as the Hawker Centre.”

But Conservative education spokesman Councillor Dennis Doe said he was not convinced.

He said: “I am not looking for a site for another secondary school unless people can prove to me that it cannot be done by extending other schools and Grey Court. In my own mind, I am not looking for a new site.

“[The Keep] is a nice idea in principle, but unless Zac might have influence in the MoD it is not something we are looking at seriously because it is too tortuous to get the land.”

Councillor Patricia Bamford, executive member for children and young people’s services, said: “The Keep is not even in our ownership.

"We have to get a new school up and running by 2015. I don’t think [Zac] has ever understood the numbers issue.

"The demand for a bigger school is already there, and we need to adhere to the time scale for achieving providing these places.”

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