Furious residents have accused education chiefs of misleading them over plans for a replacement school in Rawdon.

They say original proposals for a new Rawdon Littlemoor Primary School were for a single-storey building. But plans unveiled by Education Leeds now are for a two-storey school.

Parents wanted the new school to be built on playing fields behind the existing one in Harrogate Road but were told there was only space for a two-storey building, which was impractical.

Council chiefs then picked a new site between the A65 New Road Side and Micklefield Lane, for the development - and have turned it into two storeys.

Councillor Graham Latty (Con, Aireborough) said he was now calling on Education Leeds to confirm that it would not consider a two-storey building.

At public meetings to discuss the proposals with residents, Education Leeds said primary schools needed to be single storey with easy access for all, including disabled people, he said.

Education Leeds has stressed that the two-storey plan did not necessarily mean that would be the end result. But Coun Latty said residents had every reason to be concerned.

He said: "I have no trust at all in people who put in for planning permission. If the outline planning permission goes through for two storeys then there will be a very good chance that they'll come back with full plans for two storey and they'll have a good chance of getting it. People feel they have been lied to by Education Leeds as I do."

A Education Leeds spokesman said: "These outline plans have been submitted as an illustrative proposal as to how the school and its facilities could fit on the site.

"This is not necessarily the final layout and is subject to planning approval. It is normal practice to make a primary school single storey. However, during the course of Private Finance Initiative, there are other issues to consider such as land conditions and site constraints."

But Gerard Binks, of action group Rawdon Residents Against School Plans, said: "They told us it was to be a single storey school for the millennium with access for all and now the plans show it is a double-storey building. They've moved the goal posts."

About 400 residents have signed the group's petition against the plan and it has called for people to write with their objections to Leeds City Council's planning department before the deadline of August 14.

The group has also taken legal advice and believes it has a case to fight the plan on the grounds that the potential site is earmarked in the Leeds Unitary Development Plan as green space.