Businesses are set to be booted out of a Kingston office block to make way for a new free school.

Christian group Chapel St has announced the site for its primary school for Kingston Community School will be Kingstons House in Coombe Road, close to Norbiton station.

The free school provider hopes to open an all through school for children aged four to 18 from September 2015.

A site for its secondary school has yet to be revealed.

The Education Funding Agency (EFA) bought Kingstons House in June this year for an undisclosed amount.

Parents at a meeting chaired by Chapel St at at the YMCA Hawker Centre on Monday night asked how the five storey block could possibly be converted into a two-form primary school.

Russell Rook, chief executive at Chapel St, told parents: "That site would not have been taken on if they [EFA] could not add or configure it."

There are currently between 12 and 14 businesses inside Kingstons House - including Kingston Chamber of Commerce and developers CNM Estates - that will have to move in less than a year.

Chamber chief executive Jerry Irving said: "We acknowledge there is an urgent need for more schools in the borough but in terms of small businesses that has had an impact.

"The businesses in Kingstons House have had to look for alternative accommodation elsewhere in the borough where commercial renting costs are high and the demand for premises is high.

"It has created quite an issue for some of the small businesses."

He added the Chamber expected to move into the Guildhall from November, although arrangements had not been finalised.

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