were announced in February 2016 which proposed a new £200m road could be built through Rimrose Valley to link directly into the A5758 Broom's Cross Road in an effort to reduce the heavy congestion on the A5036 Dunnings Bridge Road; Sefton Council rejected the proposal in March 2017, citing the desire to instead build a tunnel to overcome the congestion concerns. Despite Sefton Council's stance and the public consultation revealing that the option selected by Highways England received less support from the public, Option B - a dual carriageway through Rimrose Valley - was announced in August 2017. In December 2017, Highways England attempted to defend their position that a bypass road is the preferred option to provide a direct link between the Port of Liverpool and Switch Island junction, citing considerable cost and disruption if a tunnel, estimated to cost six times as much, were to be constructed. In 2018, Sefton Council brought a judicial review against Highways England on the basis that it felt a tunnel should have been presented as an option. The High Court ruled in favour of Highways England, but the legal action resulted in a considerable delay to the project. In August 2019, Highways England were forced to publicly apologise for claiming that, in this judicial review, a judge had upheld its preferred route for a road through Rimrose Valley. This was inaccurate: the judge had simply ruled that it was not legally required to consult on a tunnel option. A local campaign group, named "Save Rimrose Valley", was formed in 2017 to oppose Highways England's plans and to demand that sustainable, non-road solutions to the movement of freight to and from the Port of Liverpool be researched and presented to the public. The campaign has attracted a large and active following. They appeared on Jeremy Vine's BBC Radio 2 show in 2018 to debate the scheme with Highways England's Regional Delivery Director, Tim Gamon. It also staged what the Campaign for Better Transport described as "the biggest anti road demonstration in recent memory" in September 2018. "Hands Across the Valley" was attended by more than 700 people and was covered by BBC North West Tonight and Granada Reports. The event was attended by local MPs Bill Esterson and Peter Dowd, as well as Friends of the Earth and the Campaign for Better Transport. Members of the public formed a giant heart on the