Representation by Robert Goldspink
- Date submitted
- 11 January 2019
- Submitted by
- Members of the public/businesses
The proposals have paid insufficient heed to the nature of the historic landscape, whose very age means that there is potentially more, and more significant, priceless global heritage lying beneath the surface than above. It would be a crime against scholarship to proceed - for instance at Blick Mead - in a way which puts the very artefacts and environmental remnants in jeopardy, not just placing a physical barrier between them and the 21st century. The award of World Heritage Status to a site means that a state recognises its duty to preserve and protect the site lies beyond its own citizens to humanity as a whole, and the nearest body we have to the representative of humanity as a whole has urged the government to think again. I join that call.