Notes for editors

1. Dr Keith Ray was quoted on the Today Programme as saying, in reply to the question “Who built it?” he said “...we think around 2,000BC, around the time of Stonehenge... they are building fairly major timber monuments... we've got a settlement behind here with timber framed houses basically but circular in form.” The monument appears to have a bronze age settlement associated with it.
2. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/hereford/worcs/6272716.stm
3. Local campaigners Dinedor Hill Action Association are taking Herefordshire Council to the High Court seeking to overturn a decision to use developer funding (for housing development rejected by the Planning Inspector as being a wholly inappropriate incursion into the countryside) to fund the Rotherwas Access Road, on the grounds that the road is of no benefit to the housing development.
4. The road itself - supposedly to allow the expansion of the Rotherwas Industrial estate - has been condemned by central government and the local plan inspector as being unnecessary when sites elsewhere in Hereford remain vacant.
5. Telephone conversation with English Heritage
6. Nigel Swift, Chair of UK group Heritage Action, can be contacted on 01299 877951 or nigelswift@aol.com
7. HC Sustainable Future for the County – HC Sustainability Strategy 2006-9, p.5
8. All Herefordshire Councillors, our local MP and prospective candidates, English Heritage, the Department for Culture, Media and Sport are being contacted and responses will be publicised
9. Cllr. Dawe (Green) is available for interview. Contact details below. More info on www.herefordshiregreens.org.uk

Rob Hattersley
Herefordshire Green Party Press Officer
07969 692534
info@herefordshiregreens.org.uk

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CPRE Herefordshire has campaigned against the Rotherwas Access Road for many years because of the damage to rural character and the encouragement of more traffic.

Dinedor Hill Action Association has launched a legal challenge to Herefordshire Council in the High Court on the funding of the road through executive housing at Bullinghope. The Council went against the advice of the UDP Inspector and it's own consultants in building the road. Government refused to fund the road because it was "poor value" for taxpayers.

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