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Stonehenge road plans 'may damage site'

Submitted by Andy B on Sunday, 21 October 2001  Page Views: 645

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Stonehenge could be badly damaged by a planned new road scheme, leading pressure groups are warning.

The government is proposing to make the A303 into a dual carriageway close to the ancient site on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire as part of a master plan for the site.

It has a "preferred route" that would include a 1.2-mile (2km) long "cut-and-cover" tunnel near the stones to hide some of the road.

But transport, environment and archaeology organisations have formed an alliance to warn that the site would suffer if the proposals went ahead.

"The Highways Agency must not treat Stonehenge as an obstacle to plans for a motorway style link from London to Penzance" Denise Carlo - Transport 2000
The groups say that many acres of sensitive archaeological landscape would be greatly disturbed, ancient sites destroyed and the wider landscape setting permanently disfigured.

Much of the land involved belongs to the National Trust. It is now under pressure from some members to reconsider the proposals.


The trust said it is working with the scheme's partners to deliver an "exceptional environmental road scheme" for the A303.

An alternative road solution was approved by informed consensus in 1995, including English Heritage and the National Trust.

The plans were for a 2.4-mile (4km) long bored tunnel under the whole site, less visible than a cut-and-cover tunnel. Full story: BBC News
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