The backers of a new free school have insisted its doors will be open by September 2014 – even though a suitable site has yet to be found.

A bid by the Chapel Street Community Schools Trust to open a new primary school in Motspur Park, on the border of Kingston and Merton boroughs, was last week approved by the Department for Education.

The Morden-based trust has promised that, when it opens, Raynes Park Community School will be a non-faith school with a Christian ethos with 60 reception places available 15 months from now.

Within seven years the school, which will serve people in Motspur Park, Raynes Park and West Wimbledon, will add 420 primary school places to the mix.

But a site for the proposed school is yet to be found.

A spokesman from the Chapel Street Community Schools Trust, said: “The site has yet to be decided.

“We are hoping to make the decision as soon as possible.

“We are confident we will be able to find a site. We are confident the site will be acceptable to people.”

He said the school would be non-selective and would also cater to special needs pupils.

It will be run with help from Roehampton University, the YMCA, Doxa Deo Church and Raynes Park Community Church, which is based in the same building as the Chapel Street Community Schools Trust.

Chapel Street already runs a secondary school in Wigan, with another due to be opened in Oxford in September.