Save the Valley (Durham)
- Timothy Clark send them a message
- Save the Valley website
For several years the Highways Section of Durham County Council has been crusading for a so-called 'Northern Relief Road' across the protected Green Belt near the centre of Durham. To cap it all, one of the most destructive road schemes in recent times could now be funded by the British Government's new Transport Innovation Fund, a scheme sold as helping reduce traffic and protecting the environment.
The road would run close to the centre of Durham City, passing on concrete stilts half a mile north of the Cathedral and in the process vandalising one of the greatest panoramas of ecclesiastical architecture in the world. It would pass right next to the much visited gardens of Crook Hall manor house and the ancient monument of Kepier Hospital on the River Wear. A possible 'outer' route has the road passing through a deeply secluded area of ancient woodland on either side of the river and then through a local nature reserve.
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