Representation by Pippa Richardson
- Date submitted
- 8 December 2018
- Submitted by
- Members of the public/businesses
As a citizen of this nation, an historian, an environmentalist and a Druid, I fundamentally object to the plans to bulldoze a new road and tunnel right through the heart of the Stonehenge World Heritage Site. If carried out, these plans would have an irreparable effect on the irreplaceable archaeology of the site and rob the British people of a vital part of their heritage. How dare anybody put the interests of the motor car above the need to protect this precious landscape in its entirety ? The road should be substantially re-routed to skirt the entire WHS. Stonehenge and its inspiring landscape is not just a unique source of information on our nation's history and that of human kind, but its beauty must be preserved in tranquillity for all time. The plans for a new road and tunnel are short-term fixes to benefit car owners - Stonehenge WHS is too important for that, we must take a very long term view. It has been there for thousands of years, let it live for thousands more.