Plans for a new school at the Bolingbroke Hospital site are still on course, the council reassured residents this week.

St Georges’ NHS Trust, which owns the site, has begun consulting on proposals for new flats and health facilities on the site.

The council has already made the Trust an offer to buy the site which is within its timescale.

Once the council’s purchase is completed there will be a fresh planning application which will include the new school alongside the health facilities.

The council has written to the Trust’s chief executive formally drawing his attention to the misleading information in the consultation document and asked for this to be corrected.