Representation by Tony White
- Date submitted
- 11 January 2019
- Submitted by
- Members of the public/businesses
For centuries – millennia – the view of Stonehenge from the road has been available free to all travellers, and as such it has been a source of inspiration to some of our greatest artists and writers, from JMW Turner to John Cowper Powys. The view itself is an invaluable part of our heritage. Going ahead with such a huge and destructive infrastructure project across the site, would not only go against the advice of UNESCO and cause untold damage to the landscape and its archeological treasures and secrets, but it would also deprive future generations of free access to this view. Damage has already been caused to the Blick Mead area, and work has hardly started. To suggest that the tunnels are for the WHS’s protection is more than merely disingenuous, it is the height of hypocrisy.