Representation by Hamish Soutar
- Date submitted
- 11 January 2019
- Submitted by
- Members of the public/businesses
The tunnel and associated cuttings and other works will do massive, lasting and unacceptable damage to the landscape of the Stonehenge World Heritage Site. The scheme therefore totally fails to meet heritage and conservation objectives. There is no justification for building a new road that causes greater and more permanent damage than the existing road.
The scheme also fails to consider the impact of the impending end of fossil fuel powered transport and its replacement by newer technology. Even if the scheme were acceptable,it will be almost obsolete by the time it is built. Emission-free vehicles will in any case greatly reduce the impact of the present road, especially noise and pollution. "Do nothing" is therefore more acceptable in the future than it appeared in the past.