RESIDENTS opposed to the plans to build a new school in Devoran plan a banner waving protest at County Hall next week.

The Concerned Residents Group hasmade its views felt at a number of meetings held in the village and at a county council site meeting last week when members were told to be quiet of leave the meeting.

The group is unhappy at the way plans for the school have been put forward and the siting of the school off the busy Devoran Lane. The current plan is the second of two that have been put forward, each varying only in access.

Members have now written to the Government Office of the South West demanding that the plan be called in because of what they describe as "discrepancies" concerning the site and local government planning policy.

Feock parish councillors already held their own meetings concerning the proposed new school and are not happy with the situation. They want the original plans resubmitted which would mean the school only going ahead after road improvements have been carried out to the main A£9 trunk road.

The county council wants to go ahead with the school without those improvements being made and creating an entrance from Devoran Lane.

The school, which will provide just one extra classroom over and above the existing Victorian building in the heart of the village, is to be built under the Private Initiative Funding Scheme and it is vital that planning permission is obtained by the end of March.

However, residents living in the immediate area remain concerned. They claim if school governors kept to their original policy of admitting children from the catchment area there would be no need for a new school.