Representation by Agneis Quinn
- Date submitted
- 8 January 2019
- Submitted by
- Members of the public/businesses
Stonehenge is a World Heritage site, described by UNESCO as a ‘landscape without parallel’. UNESCO also find the scheme to be unsuited to such a landscape. They should not be ignored. Highways England appear to want to have their cake and eat it in this regard. I visited the site as an archaeology student - the sight of it from the road is breathtaking, and this would be taken from us under these plans. No-one would get to see the stones free of charge again. And yet none of this is as potentially devastating as the destruction that will be wrought on areas of the wider site that are as yet undiscovered and/or archaeologically explored. They will be gone, along with the priceless knowledge that they contain. Highways England haven't even tried to find an alternative plan that would not result in the destruction of our history. At the very least they should be told to do this, in concert with the archaeologists who know the area best. Stonehenge is an experience - please don't let that experience be destroyed for future generations who will never get to visit an undestroyed site. It's bad enough that a vast area of the plains are already lost to us under Army firing ranges. Please don't let Highways England take the rest of the site from us. This is the heritage of all of us in the British Isles. We should be protecting it. Highways England's plans fail to do so. This is your chance to change that, on behalf of all of us 'ordinary' people who are generally overlooked in the face of Government and big business.