Representation by Sion Elis Williams
- Date submitted
- 10 January 2019
- Submitted by
- Members of the public/businesses
This scheme is completely flawed. If it goes ahead it will jeopardise the World Heritage Site (WHS) designation of Stonehenge WHS. It also has a number of negative environmental impacts, and my objection is primarily based on the certainty that this scheme will induce additional traffic and therefore fail to deliver on its aims while exacerbating already-unacceptable air pollution and climate change impacts of the existing roads in the area. To compound this the Institute for Government's Whitehall Monitor 2018 clearly demonstrates that the project is too risky to go ahead without public funding and that this would be extremely poor value for money: "Four projects were given a red rating in 2017 (nuclear core production at MoD, the A303 tunnel and M20 lorry park at DfT, selling government-owned shares at BEIS), and one project – relating to IT improvements at the Home Office – was reset with a new business case after being rated red in 2016.”