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Representation by James Gunter

Date submitted
10 January 2019
Submitted by
Members of the public/businesses

  1. It is applying an old approach to a problem without considering implications of new technology on future transport systems e.g. driverless cars

  2. There is much important archaeology e.g. Blicks Mead, in the areas to be torn apart by the works. The fact that this site has only recently been discovered clearly points to yet more to be unravelled about the Stonehenge landscape. The destruction of large area by this scheme will kill off any chance for future discoveries to be made.

  3. The site is a World Heritage Site. Cutting huge holes into part of a WHS cannot be seen as "preserving" it for future generations.

  4. This is the most important prehistoric monument and landscape in Britain. Every archaeologist who works in this landscape - including me - have raised concerns and objections to the scheme - all of which has been ignored. The triumph of the car over culture.

  5. As a WHS the decision on what can be done to the site must take into account what UNESCO advise. This is a decision beyond the narrow wishes of the UK government.

  6. As a stand alone scheme it cannot solve the problem it claims exists on the A303. There are many other schemes for sections of the A303 that also must be completed before there can be any real impact on traffic flows. Even this week it has been announced that the scheme to upgrade link to the M5 has been postponed.

  7. The cost is now already higher than the alternative of re-routing the road to the south. The nation cannot waste this sort of money.

  8. The actual traffic delay recorded by Dept of Transports own data there is "insufficient data" (source: Licence Bureau road use statistics 2016 pdf).

9, There will be major impact on local residents and farmers who will have years of noise, dirt and diversions to put up with and many types of vehicles will be banned from using the A303 tunnel.

  1. You are planning to create a wonderful target for terrorist acts. The bridges also make great suicide sites.

  2. The consultation thus far has been restricted to only be able to comment on the Highways Agency's preferred scheme. There should and must be an open consultation on the supposed problem and all possible solutions.

  3. Why has nothing or little been published on the response to the initial round of consultation. What were the conclusions of that exercise.