Two new reception classes will be created in the borough as part of a £945,000 building project.

Richmond Council’s cabinet is set to confirm building work at Heathfield infant and junior schools and Sheen Mount Primary School at a meeting on Monday.

It would create 30 reception places in Whitton and in the East Sheen and Richmond area as part of a shared forms of entry strategy - where schools are grouped together to provide seven new classrooms between them.

The council has confirmed Sheen Mount will be grouped with Marshgate Primary School and the Vineyard Primary School, both in Richmond, and each year a different school will take the extra class. Full details of the Whitton shared form have not been confirmed.

Councillor Paul Hodgins, Richmond Council cabinet member for schools, said: “This investment ensures we can continue delivering the excellent standards in our primary schools Richmond parents expect.

“It will also bring much more certainty to families in our borough who, in recent years, have worried about finding a primary school place.”

The executive will review the latest position on expansions and seek approval for contractors to be appointed. About £230,000 has been set aside for work at Heathfield with £715,000 at Sheen Mount.

The council is putting in place a 10-year strategy for primary places but Councillor Malcolm Eady, Richmond Liberal Democrats’ schools spokesman, called for it to be published.

He accused the Conservative council of being paralysed since winning control in May and not progressing plans already set to go to expand Lowther Primary School, in Barnes, and Buckingham Primary School, in Hampton, as well as reducing the scope of previously agreed schemes.

Coun Eady said: “The cabinet cannot bring itself to allocate money from the reserves in case the Government will pay for the extra places.

“The strategy for the next phase needs to be published now, to give confidence to parents places will be available.

“They must stop this Micawber-like approach of hoping that something will turn up, if necessary the shortfall will have to be funded from council reserves.”

Coun Hodgins said: “These are lasting changes which will create major benefits in terms of modern classrooms and increased numbers of children who can be taught locally.

And Councillor Geoffrey Samuel, Richmond Council deputy leader, said last month the need to provide school places was informing every spending decision.

Coun Eady was cabinet member for education and children’s services when the council agreed its primary school expansion strategy.

The authority has agreed an extra forms of entry, at Holy Trinity CE Primary School, in Richmond, St Mary’s and St Peter’s CE Primary School, in Teddington, Chase Bridge Primary School, in Whitton. It will also merge Stanley infant and junior schools to create an expanded Stanley Primary School, in Teddington, and to buy a portion of St John’s Hospital, in Strafford Road, Twickenham, to create extra places in the area.

Monday’s cabinet is also set to confirm more than £6m for the Chase Bridge expansion and £8.2m for the work at Stanley and to spend about £6.7m on special educational needs provision.

The majority of the cash is coming from Government grants.