Congestion around Cullingworth's Parkside Middle school has once again raised the hackles of residents living nearby as work starts to convert it to a secondary school.

Last week residents living in Parkside Terrace endured a procession of articulated lorries coming down their narrow road delivering temporary classrooms to the school. Residents, many of whom still oppose the plan to create a new access route to the school through Dellside Fold, claim the traffic problems seen last week will be a daily occurrence when term starts next month.

Concerned resident Christine Hawksworth says: "They are bringing these big articulated lorries down here with the classrooms on the back. I work nights and they have already had to get me up once to move my car."

Sue Brown, a resident of nearby Greenfield Crescent, says: "If these wagons are having problems what are they going to do when there's all the buses and cars going down the same road? The council say they have resolved the access problem and they have removed the cap on the number of pupils. They haven't resolved anything. It's exactly the same as before but there are going to be more."

As reported in the Keighley News councillors on the Shipley area panel recently agreed to remove the limit on number of pupils, allowing up to 1,080, once a new 27 space car park and pedestrian access route have been constructed.

Sue says the situation will not change and that residents of Parkside Terrace are going to be hit with heavy congestion on a daily basis.

"There is pedestrian access down Dellside Fold but apart from that every single vehicle that needs to get to the school is going to have to go down Parkside Terrace," says Sue.

She also says she is concerned why temporary classrooms are needed if pupil numbers are set to remain at 520 for this year.

Peter Bridgman, Shipley area planning manager, says: "To meet the needs of the secondary school curriculum I understand the school needs the current building and these extra classrooms.

"This is in line with a lot of other schools in the area which are having to have extra classrooms whilst the building work is being done. The extra classrooms would not allow the numbers of pupils to increase."

A spokesman for Bradford council says: "We apologise for the inconvenience caused to residents on Parkside Terrace last week.

"They should have been contacted in advance to let them know when the temporary classrooms were being delivered and to ask for their co-operation, if it was needed, in moving parked cars to allow access to the school site."

The spokesman adds residents will be notified shortly about the building work at the school.