A LEADING architect has said the council could resolve a row over insufficient school places within three months if the political will existed to do so.

Parents 38 of pupils who missed out on going to Dorothy Stringer school have asked that a portion of an unallocated £15m in the education budget be spent quickly on providing temporary buildings to accommodate their children.

The council and the school’s headteacher have said that is not possible before the coming school term.

Yesterday Paul Zara, director of Conran and Partners, told The Argus: “I’m an architect, people do this on building sites all the time.

“Get portakabins. They’re not pretty, but they do the job.

“It doesn’t kill children to teach them in a portakabin.”

He said the project could be done in three months for “tens of thousands, not millions” if the council wished.