Plans for the expansion of a Crouch End primary school are on track, says Haringey Council, after it submitted a planning application to begin work.

The council wants to double the size of Coleridge Primary School, in Crescent Road, to increase the number of primary school places in the west of the borough. A major part of the work will see the partial demolition of the former TUC Centre in Crouch End Hill, with the main body of the building retained and altered.

The planning application to start that work, which will also include changes to the current Crescent Road site, was submitted by the council's Children's Services in mid-November.

The school is expected to double its intake of pupils in September next year, with the TUC building opening in September 2008.

A council spokeswoman said the council was confident' both the old site and new one will be ready by their respective dates. "Everything is on track," she said.

Recently, the council has had problems with expanded primary schools opening in time. In September, Coldfall Primary School, Coldfall Avenue, Muswell Hill, had to open nearly two weeks late because of delayed expansion work.

The council was given special dispensation from the Office of the Schools' Adjudicator earlier this month to allow 30 pupils at Tetherdown Primary School, Grand Avenue, Muswell Hill, to begin their schooling in January 2008, rather than September 2007, again because of delayed building work.