ENFIELD Council has denied harbouring plans to merge two school in order to sell land for housing.

Plans for the future of the North Circular published by the council reveal an ambition to merge Broomfield School with Bowes Primary School, to free the Bowes land on the edge of the A406 for “high quality” housing.

Concerned parents have taken to online forums in the past week about the planned merger, objecting to the move.

Mother Cara Morgan, who is planning to send her daughter to Bowes Primary, wrote: "This deeply concerns me, and I feel that this has been kept very quiet as none of the residents on my road that I have spoken to are aware of this plan."

However, the council has today denied any such plan exists and suggested information in its own planning document is false.

The document – the North Circular Area Action Plan - says: “There is an opportunity to provide a new all-age school on the site of Broomfield Secondary School. This would release the site of the existing Bowes Park Primary School, occupying a listed building, for a potential high quality residential conversion.”

The council issued a statement, saying: “There are no plans whatsoever to close or relocate Bowes Primary School.” But it offered no explanation of the statement in the planning document.

The document is a revised version of a 2008 plan for the North Circular through New Southgate, Bowes, Bounds Green, and Palmers Green.

The new version was published in November last year to spark debate with the public on the future of the area, but the council has been criticised for not publicising its existence.

Margaret Wilkinson, who lives in Powys Lane, said: “I've said to the lady in charge that they haven't put leaflets out, they are not doing anything really.

“It is all being kept really quiet and I imagine for a lot of people who live round this area, this will be news to them.”

Veteran North Circular campaigner John Waller said: “The public in general do not know about the consultation, it needs to be stopped and refreshed to get a meaningful consultation and engagement on an appropriate document.

“It is a very limited consultation.”

The online document is not publicised on the council's own website, but the old 2008 document can still be read online.

The Enfield Independent has asked who has been consulted on the plan and how, and is awaiting a response.

The council said it is looking into the matter.