CONCERNED residents packed a parish hall to voice their disapproval of plans to rebuild St Wilfrid's school on Fensicliffe playing fields.
Residents' action group chairman, Frank Baxendale, said: "The support for our cause was overwhelming. We want planning permission refused and we'll fight all the way."
Although the audience agreed the Blackburn school needed to expand and move elsewhere they all opposed the move to Fensicliffe.
Council leader, Malcolm Doherty, left the two-hour meeting clutching a 12 inch stack of letters collected from those present.
He said: "I never thought there would be such level of support for the action group. I will be trying my best to persuade the planning committee that Feniscliffe is not the right site but it's not going to be easy."
During the next eight weeks, the action group is urging residents to write to the council and sign a petition to be handed to the planning committee.
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