Representation by Victoria Lane
- Date submitted
- 11 January 2019
- Submitted by
- Members of the public/businesses
This road may cause irreparable damage to a site of both national and international importance. The archaeological and sociological impact of Stonehenge is immense, one of Britain's top tourist attractions and a unique landscape which may be altered or destroyed by these works. Stonehenge is not just the stones themselves but the entire surrounding landscape which must remain undisturbed as it has a wealth of prehistoric archaeological significance. As we are still figuring out the mysteries of this area, cutting a swathe through the middle of it would hinder or completely destroy our efforts to understand such a unique and precious site and would be a loss to worldwide understanding of neolithic culture.
Aside from this, the site is also of ritualistic, spiritual and religious importance to many thousands of people of Druidic, Wiccan, spiritualist and other pagan faiths and disturbing the landscape would be akin to tunneling through a church graveyard or causing irreparable damage to Westminster Abbey by the vibrations from passing traffic underneath.