Representation by Charles Peyton
- Date submitted
- 11 January 2019
- Submitted by
- Members of the public/businesses
The proposed road development will - as UNESCO has pointed out - endanger one of the most important landscapes of its kind anywhere in the world, potentially destroying invaluable archaeology.
It will also spoil the view of Stonehenge from the road, making it necessary for anyone who wants to see it to pay for the privilege. But it should not be a privilege - it should remain an important, integral part of a unique landscape, as, it must be assumed, the people who constructed it intended it to be. In a real sense, it will be far less comprehensible as a monument if it the landscape around it is disfigured in the way the proposals suggest.
The Blick Mead mesolithic site will be severely damaged, in a desecration that our great-grandchildren will find crass and incomprehensible.
I'm also concerned about the threat to local bird species - the great bustard and the stone curlew, and increased noise from traffic in the area.
It's imperative that other proposals, which don't inflict so much damage in all of these respects, be developed instead place of this crude and culturally clueless proposal.