Turing House School has identified a permanent site close to the borough's border with Hounslow, a source has revealed.

The secondary free school, which left parents and children in the lurch when it failed to open last year, hopes to open at a temporary site in Livingston House, Teddington, this September.

The site, a disused office block in Queens Road, is expected to be officially confirmed once an agreement between the Russell Education Trust (RET) and the Education Funding Agency (EFA) has been reached.

Karen Lynch, RET chief executive, said: "We have a good temporary site which we will be able to announce in the next few weeks and the EFA has been in discussions about two possible permanent sites, both of which would work well for us.

"We will tell parents as soon as it is commercially possible to do so."

This newspaper understands the permanent location for Turing House School will be in the Whitton area.

When asked about this, Twickenham MP Vince Cable said the rumoured location "would not fulfill the school’s criteria for addressing oversubscription of places in Twickenham and Teddington".

He added: "We don’t know what the site is in Whitton but there is not the same pressure on schools places there."

A council spokesman said: "The council is working hard to support the EFA and Turing House to find a permanent home for the school.

"The EFA are responsible for securing a site and until a solution is identified and finalised, any suggestion of potential locations would be unhelpful to the process and jeopardise any ongoing discussions."