Representation by Sophy Buckley
- Date submitted
- 9 January 2019
- Submitted by
- Members of the public/businesses
The plan to turn the A303 into a under ground dual carriageway that runs close to the Stonehenge site has many flaws. It is ridiculously expensive and cannot give value for money in terms of a return on investment; it stands to destroy at worst and disturb at best an ancient site of great historical importance that we are learning more and more about with every passing year; it goes against UNESCO's own advice; there are alternative routes either south of or north of Stonehenge that would avoid the disturbance and thereby preserve the site and cost far less money; the work would disturb important sites for birds, particularly the Great Bustard which was only recently successfully reintroduced to Salisbury Plain; there are no guarantees that the work wouldn't adversely interfere with the water table which is critical to the health of the world famous Hampshire Avon, a beautiful chalk stream that attracts fishermen from all around the world; the only people who would benefit from this particular scheme are the construction companies that will charge the tax payer billions to build the tunnel.