A sports ground in Edgware is being earmarked as a possible site for the country's first state-funded Hindu school.

I-Foundation, the charity behind the plans, has dropped a possible site in Pinner due to strong opposition from Green Belt campaigners and has now identified the William Ellis Sports Ground in Camrose Avenue as an alternative site.

If given the go-ahead, the Krishna-Avanti Primary School will be established as a one-form-entry, mixed primary school with an attached nursery.

The charity hopes it will be open by September 2008, and will fill on a year-by-year basis to minimise the impact on other primary schools.

At present, there is no Hindu voluntary-aided school in the UK and the I-Foundation believes that Hindu organisations are keen for such a school to be established in the borough of Harrow, to offer more choice to the borough's Hindu community. A fifth of that borough's residents are Hindu, the highest percentage in the country.

A consultation period has now been launched which will end on September 24, while two public exhibitions on the revised scheme are to be held.

These will be held at St Anthony's Catholic Social Club on the corner of Edgware High Street and Garratt Road, Edgware, from 12pm to 6pm on September 20, and at Canons High School, in Shaldon Road, Canons Park, from 9.30am to 5pm on September 23.

To take part in the consultation process, or for more information, see www.krishna-avanti.org.uk