CAMPAIGNERS fight-ing plans to build a super school in Towneley Park have urged residents to join in a final push to get the development scrapped.

Almost 1,300 people have signed a petition by action group Towneley for the People opposing Lancashire County Council's proposal to build a new building for Unity College as part of the £250m Building Schools for the Future programme.

And now organisers are appealing for more people to lodge their objections before the deadline closes on Sunday.

Burnley Council, which owns some of the land earmarked for the school, has opposed the plans, forcing the county council to seize it by serving a compulsory purchase order.

As part of that process the county council has to allow a period for objections.

Now Towneley for the People is calling on people to back its fight to force the Government to hold a public inquiry into the development, which could last up to a year.

Secretary Ian Galbraith said: "This has been a long fight and it is important that those who love Towneley keep going. The voice of Burnley people and their council must be listened to and our park protected."

The county council wants to build the 1,050-place secondary school as a replacement for the former Towneley High.

Towneley for the People claim the school would destroy the park and increase the risk of flooding, and say the present site or another in Burnley Wood would be more suitable.

So far 1,290 signatures have been collected on a petition.

Burnley Council leader Coun Gordon Birtwistle added: "It's vitally important everyone who wants to object does so to give us a chance of getting it overturned.."

Objections should sent to: Mr Keith Johnston, School Assets Team, Room 11, Lower ground floor, Mowden Hall, Staindrop Road, Darlington, DL3 9BG quoting 'The Lancashire County Council (Land off Towneley Holmes Road, Burnley) Compulsory Purchase Order 2006'.