COUNTRY campaigners have branded the Bullinghope homes plan 'desperate and ridiculous'.
The Council to Protect Rural England's Herefordshire branch has joined residents and the Dinedor Action Group - which was formed in 2002 to fight the proposed Rotherwas access road - in campaigning against the homes.
Its policy chairman, Bob Widdowson, said that the long-term implications of the plan put a town 'twice the size of Kington' inside the Hereford City boundary without the social facilities to match.
Mr Widdowson said CPRE made three key claims about why the Bullinghope development should not go ahead. They were:
l In return for planning permission the developers would be required to provide a Rotherwas access road that government had said was yet to prove its case.
l The developers would not have to offer any affordable housing.
l The scheme would be built in a designated landscape area, on a green field site, and would wreck one of the finest approaches to the city.
Mr Widdowson urged councillors to 'see sense' and withdraw a 'ridiculous' proposal.
"In a desperate attempt to build a road that has failed to attract Government support, the council is being asked to back the building of over 1,800 houses - a town twice the size of Kington - with no social facilities and no housing for local people in need of homes, in the middle of an area designated of great landscape value," he said.
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