THE group formed to fight a proposed quarry at Hewelsfield and construction of a new quarry road link say they are "delighted" at a district council decision to object to the plans.
However organiser Jan Dunbar says she is upset that posters advertising a meeting this Thursday to coordinate objections to the plan have been removed.
"We posted them all around the area and we have written to all the parish councils in all the villages along the A48," she said.
"The posters by Tidenham Chase and Poor's Allotment, where the proposed road is to run, are all right, but most of the others have been removed," she said.
"We also heard back from some councils, including Chepstow, that it had little to do with them – until we reminded them that once the lorries are on the A48 they have to go somewhere!"
The Forest of Dean District Council condemned proposals to include roadstone quarrying at Woodlands Farm, Hewelsfield, into the county councils minerals plan after learning that the work would leave a scar on the landscape visible for 30 miles.
Council officer Jim Stewart also said the proposals for the site, in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, was potentially damaging.
Jan Dunbar said she and her fellow objectors were "absolutely delighted" by the council's decision.
She said she had also heard that sweeping new powers for protecting AONBs were being introduced and that information regarding this development had been read out at the council meeting.
No formal plans for the quarry have yet been put forward by Greenfield Associates, who are acting on behalf of the as-yet unknown quarry company.