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Representation by David Williams

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

I am writing to object to the proposed A303 Stonehenge scheme (TR010025), as I believe that it will cause unnecessary and untold damage to a historic site. We are the guardians of this area for future generations and it should not be destroyed for the sake of a highway scheme. In general the main issues why it should be stopped are as follows:

  1. It will cause irreparable damage to the World Heritage site, its archaeology and setting, described by UNESCO as a ‘landscape without parallel’.
  2. UNESCO’s international advisers say the scheme should not go ahead in its present form.
  3. The unresolved concerns about damage to Blick Mead Mesolithic site and its setting.
  4. The lack of alternative options in consultation that would not damage the World Heritage site.
  5. Disturbance of rare bird species, including the stone curlew and great bustard.

Highways England need to think of alternatives to construction of new highways. We have decades of evidence demonstrating that it is not possible to build your way out of congestion. This scheme, in the long term will have no benefit in relation to the problems it is trying to solve, whilst destroying an irreplaceable landscape.