Owners of the Montessori School presently at Stallingborough, plan to convert Top House Farm (formerly the Fleece Inn) into a school for 90 children up to age 11, as well as a 40 place nursery for pre-school children.


Nathan Archer said they would seek to ensure the site itself had sufficient parking spaces.


"Many of our parents use the school for the child care element of what we do," he said "and they will be using the school at staggered times."


Plans submitted to West Lindsey District Council show that two single storey extensions are planned for the Grade 2 listed building, which are presently being used as tea rooms and holiday accomodation.


The application says the school would be open from 7am to 7pm, with 23 staff when at full capacity. Full use would be made of the 9.8 acre site as 'land is needed for open air lessons - one of the principles of Montessori teaching'.


Plans indicate entrance to the school site would be from Grimsby Road, below what is presently a small tractor museum, with an emergency entrance/exit on Riby Road.


However, residents have expressed concern about the number of parents arriving by car and backing up to Caistor Top, one of the most dangerous junctions in the area.


Coun Ian Robinson, who is chairman of Caistor Town Council Planning Committee, said the council's only concern was 'the increased amount of traffic with 90 children in school and 40 in the nursery.'


"This will inevitably bring in extra traffic at dropping off and picking up times," he said.


"Although the school authorities say they will be encouraging parents to share transport and to use a school mini-bus to pick children up, inevitably people will bring their children, especially the younger ones.


"We have real concerns about traffic at this very heavy junction."