ANGRY residents claim traffic will be a nightmare if plans to build a replacement Rawdon Littlemoor Primary School go ahead.

Education Leeds is pressing ahead with its plan to build a new school on land it owns off the A65 New Road Side and this week submitted an outline planning application.

But at a packed meeting on Tuesday at Yeadon Town Hall attended by 200 people, the majority said increased traffic on New Road Side would be a disaster and that the school should be rebuilt on its own playing fields.

Rawdon businessman Geoff-rey Walker added his hairdressing salon, right next to the proposed access to the school site, would suffer enormously as traffic was brought to a standstill.

Mr Walker, who with his wife, Lynn owns Hair by Tiffany on New Road Side, said he was incensed by the scheme which he claimed would bring 150 cars twice a day onto the already busy road.

"The traffic along New Road Side will come to a complete standstill. There will be 150 cars trying to get in and out of there every day and it's the last thing we need."

Mr Walker, who has been running a petition against the plan, said he had nothing against a replacement school but added it was the wrong place to build it.

"We're not opposed to the school, it's just the wrong place to put it. They just don't want to know about building at Littlemoor and we think its because they want to put houses there."

Mr Walker added that he could see his business suffering and the value of his house falling if the school was built.

"I shall be claiming for dam-