A MODEL aircraft club says it will have nowhere to fly its radio controlled planes if the proposed super-school at Low Valley goes ahead.
The group of retired people from Wombwell and Darfield use a large open area of Netherwood Country Park to fly their craft.
They fear a large number of trees which will be uprooted to make way for the school will be replanted in open space used by the group, off the Bradberry Balk Lane car park.
Member Don Proctor, of Siena Close, Darfield, said: “The council don’t realise how well used that space is.
It’s used for walking, football, cricket, picnics, model aircraft flying, and there’s a lot of wildlife that use it including a family of hawks and a barn owl."
The group needs an ‘overfly area’ free from pylons and not surrounded by houses. Another flyer, Peter Radford, of Venetian Crescent, Darfield, said: “If they were going to take this space and re-create it on the site of Wombwell High, then that would be something. But it never works that way.
“They made a really good job of creating this park. Can’t they see that?”
Mr Proctor added: “It must have cost millions and now they’re going to take it away. It’s a terrible waste.”
