PUPILS have been left with nowhere to take lessons after a school was ordered to pull down temporary classrooms.

Little Kingshill Combined School, Windsor Lane, Little Kingshill, had applied to keep the unit for one more year before their yearly intake drops from 60 to 30.

But members of Chiltern District Council's planning committee voted against the proposal arguing that the classrooms had been there since the 1970s and should not be on green belt land.

Cate Campbell, chair of governors at the school, said nothing has been organised for the children when the classrooms are pulled down at the end of July.

She stressed the 60 pupils, aged seven to nine years, had nowhere else to go.

She said: "It's very disappointing for the school that we will have to re-house the children.

"At the moment we are still thinking about it."

She added: "The school's intake will move down to 30 from 2002, so after this year's problems things should be a lot better.

"We have just won a school achievement award and had a good Ofsted report and we will have to keep up its standards, but that won't be of any help to us."

Cllr Donald Phillips (Con, Little Chalfont) said: "It (the classroom) was intended for temporary usage. Here we are 30 years later and umpteen applications later. We are just trying to prick their conscience, however it is mended, it is not in a reasonable condition."

However Cllr Elizabeth Stacy (Con, Cholesbury and The Lee) who supported the school, said at the meeting that it was common sense to keep the unit. She said: "An exception should be made. Arrangements should be made for less children coming into the school. It is just for 12 months."