CAMPAIGNERS opposed to the building of the Cressex Link road in High Wycombe have vowed to fight on despite accepting they cannot stop it being built.

Buckinghamshire County Council is planning to build the £1.2million road with the help of a £500,000 grant from Wycombe District Council.

However, the controversial highway still needs planning permission and an application is set to be put forward in November.

The campaigners' cause has been taken up by their new county councillor Alan Hill.

He was set to present a bundle of protest letters to a full meeting of the county council yesterday.

Andy Brice who lives in one of the affected roads Miersfield said most people and local councillors were against the scheme.

He said: "It is not looking good, but we have not totally given up help.

"The council seem determined to railroad it through. They really don't care what we think and this will be our last ditch attempt."

Cressex Link will go from the John Hall Way roundabout, along Chalfont Way to the junction of Cressex Road and Coronation Road, to provide better access to Cressex Business Park.

It is 30 years since the road was first mooted.

On Monday, Val Letheren, the council's cabinet member for roads, is expected to agree that the road should be included in a £26m transport capital programme for the current year.

This week the Conservative district councillor for Booker and Cressex, Darren Hayday, said: "At this point the best we can do is to make sure that residents don't get bundled to sort out noise, and compensation and to check that they were told about the road in legal searches."

He said Cllr Hill and Anne Stenner, the Labour councillor for Booker and Cressex had always been against the road, and so had he since he joined the council in 2003.

"We tried everything we could, but decisions were made a long time ago," he explained.

Cllr Letheren confirmed she would be signing the programme off on Monday.

She said she was enthusiastic about the plan and had been when she was working as a district councillor in the 1980s.

She added Wycombe District Council, which wanted to improve the Cressex estate, was also in favour.

"It will be so much better for the residents," she added.

"Some will be affected, but others will benefit. There will be winners and losers."

Also in the council's capital programme is money for a temporary park and ride site at Cressex to serve commuters who will lose parking places in the town centre while the Eden centre is being built.