Representation by Jacqueline Milmail
- Date submitted
- 13 December 2018
- Submitted by
- Members of the public/businesses
This proposed road development, or Expressway, will be a blot on the landscape - rather like a motorway etched into a World Heritage Site. It is not just all the upheaval and impairment to the environment whilst the construction is taking place - and we do not know what lies beneath the area to be excavated - but, after completion, the pollution and urbanising of such a sacred site will leave its mark. All this to give drivers easier access from A to B and to save money. Far better to look for another more circuitous route and pay more - as we know, whether an Expressway or Motorway is 10 miles long or 20 miles long, it makes little difference in time when driving at speed. Stonehenge is probably England's most sacred, and oldest, heritage site, a call from our ancient past, and should not be subject to destructive, modern interference - something that may well be much regretted in the future and unable to be undone. Finance and shortness of contract should not be the main criterion for such an undertaking - I should think anyone throughout the world with an interest in heritage and our past would be horrified at such a proposal. Please think again.