Representation by Charles J Vickers
- Date submitted
- 11 December 2018
- Submitted by
- Members of the public/businesses
Stonehenge and its surroundings are recognised worldwide as one of those special places where we humans girded our loins and set out on the path to modernity.
Despite the long time over which we have been investigating the site it would be foolish to think that we know and understand everything about the start of that great leap forward.
It is arrogant and foolish to think that the work proposed will not in someway adversely affect our understanding of what happened. Since we do not presently know everything there is to know about the site it is impossible to say that the works proposed will not damage the site and reduce the sum of our knowledge of it in the future.
There is a very real danger, given the speed with which technology advances, that in 50 years people looking back on these works will shake their heads over the crude manner in which it was carried out
The "we know best" official attitude can only be based on an official view that the international bodies who oppose the works are ignorant idiots and on an entirely misplaced view that the officials “know best”.
There has already been enough interference with the site and in my opinion there should be no more. Traffic problems should be handled in a way that does not affect the site and its environment.