"The filing of the draft orders for the tunnel scheme signals the end of round one of this fight and the start of round two," said Ferris Cowper this week.
"In round one we have mobilised intense public opinion. Now in round two we will fight harder. The kid gloves are off and now we mean business," he declared.
With fewer than two weeks to go before the draft orders for the A3 tunnel are expected to be published, Mr Cowper claimed: "The long-term fate of a community of some 7,000 people from Grayshott and Hindhead is soon to be determined along with government plans to destroy Grayshott with its dangerous, badly designed, and ill-conceived Hazel Grove junction."
They follow an EHDC Rural Affairs Panel meeting last month, to which members of the public and the press were not invited, when a spokesman for the Highways Agency made a presentation outlining changes to the current proposals.
"We all turned up to a council meeting expecting a level- playing field discussion in the public domain, but what we got was new data, new facts, and a redesigned scheme without any consultation."
He claimed the lack of consultation was revealed "in all its sickening cynicism at the closed EHDC meeting on September 26".
Mr Cowper believed that tactics were used to head off his argument and a presentation by the Grayshott-based action group, Save the Old A Three, (STOAT), with the announcement of a "raft of surprising facts and undocumented plans".
He further accused the Highways Agency of "failing to listen to the concerns of villages by insisting on keeping its wholly discredited Hazel Grove junction design, with all its safety risks and colossal damage it will do the village community and economy."
He claims that among the changes is "data that has mysteriously altered to beef-up the case for closure of the A3".
Mr Cowper is also critical of what he calls the "as yet undocumented announcement" of plans to downgrade the present Byway Open to All Traffic - BOAT 500 - which runs alongside the A3.
"It has waited until the 11th hour to announce these changes. The draft orders for the tunnel scheme must be filed this month and this raft of fundamental revision has been delayed until the last possible moment," claimed Mr Cowper.
"Saving the old A3 means saving Grayshott, which comes to a total standstill due to traffic volumes too often already.
"Our elderly folk, a quarter of whom are over 65, must be given the chance to get from one side of the village to the other without fear of being hit by a car," said Mr Cowper, who describes rush-hour traffic as "a slow-moving, solid-steel barrier that is cars, buses, and HGVs crawling through our pretty village, choking us with their fumes.
"We have suffered with the A3 blight for decades, but we don't deserve to be suffocated by even more diesel fumes from the convoys of HGVs and commuter cars headed for the traffic magnet called the Hazel Grove junction," concluded Mr Cowper.