Talks are continuing over Bristol City Council's plans to create another primary school in Bishopston in spite of a series of setbacks.

The council has now announced that Ashley Down Junior School is being lined up to run the reception class at the new site known as the Brunel field from September.

But the authority, no doubt mindful of the history of parental protests in the area, has stressed: "Full consultation will take place with the local community on any proposals."

The school, rated outstanding by Ofsted, confirmed it had been approached and was interested in the proposal but said details had to be cleared up.

The planned 210-place primary at the Brunel field, alongside City of Bristol College's Ashley Down campus and Gloucestershire County Cricket Club's ground, has been dogged by controversy.

The latest blow came on Wednesday when councillors put off a decision on planning permission for the £5 million school, saying that more details were needed about parking, traffic and loss of playing field space.

Cabinet member for children Clare Campion-Smith said: "We will press on because we must.

"I have to keep at the forefront of my mind that we are creating new school places and doing it as speedily as we can to stop parents having the agonising wait they had last year. Officers are looking at the plans in detail so we can gain consent and start work on site.

"We are committed to ensuring this provision is in place by September next year. In the meantime, the council is working with Ashley Down Junior School as a potential partner in the management of the new school places."

Bristol's ruling Liberal Democrats, who first approved the Brunel field school proposal early in 2007, made it a priority when they returned to power earlier this year.

But they discovered there was not enough time to set up a standalone school and the provision would have to be run by another school's head and governors at first.

The council announced in its admissions booklet last month that Bishop Road school, already Bristol's largest primary, would run the new classes as an annexe but the school's governors said they had not agreed to this and did not wish to do so.

This meant the authority had to approach other schools to see if they would take it on.

Laurence Pitt, head teacher of Ashley Down Juniors, and Claire Foxwell, chairwoman of governors, said in a statement: "At present we have a number of points that we are waiting to hear back from the local authority about before we can make a final decision as to whether we accept the proposal and go out to consultation.

"These are mainly around making sure that taking on the running of the new site would not have any negative impact on the children attending the current Ashley Down Infant and Junior Schools now or in the future.

"However, we have an outstanding school here and we believe we have the capacity to spread our success to the new site so that the new reception places are available in time.

"We can't say much more until we are in a position to make a final decision. In the meantime it's business as usual for our school."