THE FIGHT by campaigners against plans to hold the Severn Revels at Hewelsfield this summer is seeking wider support from neighbouring parishes.
Following a meeting at the district council offices in Coleford on Monday at which the Revels were discussed, a spokesman for the anti-Revels group said legal options were being studied.
But there was also support from settlements on or near the B4228 which would bear much of the traffic for the planned event on July 21-23 as well as a growing feeling that a formerly quiet corner was coming under intense pressure.
In the triangle from Tutshill to Brockweir to Woolaston there was not only the planned Revels but also an inquiry over major quarry application, the shooting of a film on the Lancaut peninsula off the B4228, and plans for a major cycleway, said the spokesman.
During the time the festival is being held there will also be many cyclists and tourists in the recreation area.
Officers of the four parish councils of Hewelsfield and Brockweir, Tidenham, St Briavels and Woolaston, as well as police representatives, were told the B4228 has already been declared unsuitable for more heavy traffic.
The action group also told the councils: "Dean Arts have abandoned their policy stated after the Blaisdon Revels in 1997 that they wished to hold future events at venues where they will be welcomed by and integrated into the local community."
The spokesman said the action group "would not be railroaded into letting the event go ahead without proper consultation" and while it approved of most of the work of Dean Arts it utterly opposed the Revels at Hewelsfield.
It was expected that the annual meeting of Hewelsfield and Brockweir Parish Council on Tuesday this week would be told the battle would go on.