A303 Stonehenge DCO application

• Application for A303 Stonehenge DCO Examination, Redetermination, official communications and SA submissions, Timeline from 2018 to present Multiple sources

Amesbury Museum Heritage Trust

• Amesbury Museum Heritage Trust Facebook page

ASLaN – Ancient Sacred Landscape Network

• ASLaN Facebook page

Avebury Society

• Representation, May 2019

Banton, Simon

• Website: Map of Barrows in Stonehenge landscape – annotated google map
• Website: The Stones of Stonehenge
• Article with video: Avenue walk and the Durrington Walls Pits, 2020 The video assists with understanding the importance of the view-shed
• Talk and article: Stonehenge landscape and new discoveries: A guided talk and walk, part one, 2020 Stonehenge Alliance illustrated report

Blick Mead Archaeology

• Consultation – Objection here, 2018

British Museum

• Further reading: Exhibition catalogue “The World of Stonehenge”, 2022 (out of print, reprint under consideration)
• Video: Curators’ introduction to The World of Stonehenge Exhibition closed 17 July 2022

Campaign for Better Transport (formerly Transport 2000)

• CBT – Home
• Statement concerning proposed Stonehenge scheme, October 2014
• Article: ”New Roads Create New Traffic” Induced traffic
• Article: “Air Quality” Air pollution from traffic

Consortium of Conservation Bodies

• STATEMENT AND VISION: press released 30 March 2006 by, in alphabetical order:
  • ASLaN – Ancient Sacred Landscape Network
  • CBA – The Council for British Archaeology
  • CPRE – The Campaign to Protect Rural England
  • FoE – Friends of the Earth
  • ICOMOS-UK – International Council for Monuments & Sites, UK
  • Prehistoric Society
  • RESCUE – The British Archaeological Trust
  • The National Trust
  • Transport 2000 – Now Campaign for Better Transport
  • WANHS – Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Society (Wiltshire Museum)

Consortium of Stonehenge Experts

• Position and response to A303 Stonehenge consultation, 2018
• Representation to redetermination: review and assessment of risk to harm of heritage assets, April 2022

Construction trade updates: costs and contracts

• New Civil Engineer
• Highways Magazine
• Build 
• Construction News 

Council for British Archaeology (CBA)

• Home – CBA
• Stonehenge Saga 2000 – 2010
• Cardinal principles to inform management of Stonehenge and surrounding landscape (Revised), Nov 2016 (re-published in  paragraph D8 in 2019 response) 
• Statement on Stonehenge proposals, 18 Jan 2017
• Representation to Examiners: Summary submission,  May 2019
• Comments on redetermination,  April 2022
• Archaeologists debate A303 at Stonehenge, Nov 2015
• CBA Wessex 2017 response here.

CPRE – Campaign to Protect Rural England

• Home – CPRE
• Report: End of the road: the road building consensus
• Video animation: CPRE End of the Road
• Wiltshire CPRE chair, Anne Henshaw: Stonehenge must not be put at risk just to placate irate motorists Comment in Daily Express, 21 June 2021

DEFRA – Dept for Environment, Fisheries & Rural Affairs

• Map: Magic Map Shows landscape designations, habitats, flooding areas, and areas of special protection

Department for Transport

• Reports: A303, A30 and A358 corridor feasibility study, published 2015
• Letter: Secretary of State’s Decision Letter to proceed with the scheme, 12 November 2020
• Draft National Policy Statement for National Networks (NPSNN) 2023 – Stonehenge Alliance Response 

English Heritage

• See position and updates here

Fort, Tom

• Further Reading: ‘The A303 Highway to the Sun’, 2012 Simon & Schuster.  Book based on journalist Tom Fort’s programme of the same name.  No longer available on iPlayer.

Fielden, Kate

• Article: Stonehenge World Heritage Site at risk from A303 tunnel plans, The Ecologist, December 2014
• Article: Stonehenge Tunnel Surfaces Again: Rescue reacts, Rescue, Oct 2014

Friends of the Earth

• Home – Friends of the Earth
• Why saving Stonehenge is an environmental issue, 2018
• Additional Objection from FOE SW, 2018
• Open floor hearing: Summary on oral submission on Climate Change, 2019
• Comments on National Highways submission for redetermination of DCO, 2022

Gaffney, Vincent (et al “Stonehenge Hidden Landscapes” Project)

• Video: The Stonehenge tunnel: an act of monstrous vandalism , 2020
• Research paper – open access: A Massive, Late Neolithic Pit Structure associated with Durrington Walls Henge Gaffney, V et al, 2020, Published on Internet Archaeology 55. A series of massive geophysical anomalies, located south of the Durrington Walls henge monument, were identified during fluxgate gradiometer survey undertaken by the Stonehenge Hidden Landscapes Project. Initially interpreted as dewponds.
• Research paper with CD data sets and panoramas – pdf via researchgate.net: Stonehenge Landscapes: Journeys Through Real and Imagined Worlds, Sally Exon, Vince Gaffney, Ronald Yorston and Ann Woodward, 2000. CD software program copyright owner is Ronald Yorston. Archaeopress holds a licence to distribute ‘Stonehenge Landscapes’. The study team explores the interrelationships of the monuments in the Stonehenge area digitally and dynamically as a landscape that is multi dimensional and multi-layered through the Mesolithic, Neolithic and Bronze Ages.  

Goodwin, Phil

• Webinar: Saving Stonehenge WHS: Transport & Economics, 3 June 2021, Video and slides
• Article – “Important and credible fuzzy projections by the Department for Transport – but still fuzzy thinking about Stonehenge”, May 2022, Local Transport Today
• Article – “If you’re in a hole… it must be time to rethink Stonehenge scheme “ Oct 2021, Local Transport Today Analysis of a flawed heritage valuation
• Written evidence using A303 Stonehenge as case study – Major Infrastructure Projects: Appraisal and Delivery , Transport Select Committee, 2020

Hagyard, Tim

• Article with summary – Respect Stonehenge: An alternative, 2021 A proposal for a package of traffic measures that should be trialled before considering an expensive and massively intrusive landscape intervention 

Heritage Journal, The

• HJ – Home Search ‘Stonehenge’ for articles and sketches from 2014 to present

High Court

• The Hon Justice Holgate – A303 Stonehenge  Judgment 30 July 2021 Between the Claimant Save Stonehenge World Heritage Site Ltd and Defendant Secretary of State for Transport, and Highways England, Historic Commission for England (Historic England) Summary  | Full judgment 

Highways England

• See National Highways below

Historic England

• See position and updates here
• World Heritage International obligations 

Honouring the Ancient Dead (HAD)

• Home – HAD
• Summary response can be found here, 2017

ICOMOS UK

• Home – ICOMOS-UK
• Submission to Examining Authority, 2019
• Reports and feedback

James, Alan

• Analysis: Cultural Heritage Value Report, May 2019 Submitted as written representation for SA
• Response to redeterminaton submission, 2022 Comments confined to costs, benefits and inflation

Keene, Suzanne

• Contingency valuation – report: Valuing Heritage Impacts, National Highways – Methodology and results, Response to FOI 6 Feb 2017 via What Do They Know? 
• Contingency valuation – survey and images shown: Valuing Heritage Impacts: Appendices National Highways – Response to FOI 6 Feb 2017 via What Do They Know? 
• Area to be excavated excluding tunnel: Longbarrow Junction, Western cutting tunnel approach, Eastern cutting around existing A303 National Highways response to FOI via What Do They Know?  12 April 2021

Kinnersly, Pat

• Email: Response to redetermination, April 2022 Faced with a pre-determination to go ahead irrespective of responses, the objector included an anticipated proforma reply.

Marshall, Tim

• Article: Stonehenge Expressway: An eloquent emblem of a failed transport policy,  2017

Media

• Media coverage From 2014 to present
• Press Releases by SA From 2014 to present
• Facebook page @StonehengeAlliance
• Twitter account @SaveStonehenge
• Instagram @SaveStonehenge_WHS

Moss, Dave

• Article: Stonehenge and the motorist: A 5,000 year old story… so far, May 2021 Published in Wheels Alive! A cool look from a motorist’s perspective

National Audit Office 

• Road enhancements: progress with the second road investment strategy (2020 to 2025) – Department for Transport and National Highways.  November 2022
• Improving the A303 between Amesbury and Berwick Down | Summary and Full report  Assessment, May 2019

National Highways (formerly Highways England/Highways Agency)

• Draft RIS3 “Shaping the future of England’s strategic roads” – Stonehenge Alliance Response to NH’s Initial Report (July 2023) 
• Position and updates here
• Draft DCO application  
• Redetermination documents, 2022 Published by Planning Inspectorate: 42 documents on 23 February 2022, with 8 further documents with correspondence on 3 February 2022.
• Redetermination documents, 11/07/2022: Plans, Figures, Images
• Redetermination- Revised business case, 2022
• HE consultation 2018 videos, events timetable, documents
• Public consultation booklet, 2018
• Consultation booklet – non-technical summary, 2018
• Questionnaire, 2018
• HE consultation feedback reports and preferred route announcement, 2017
• HE booklet Creating an Expressway to the South West, 2016 This link has been removed from Highways England website.  It has been saved and uploaded to this website.  
• Map of eight road schemes, 2016

National Trust

• See position and updates here
• Land Map is a mapping tool that displays the history of the Trust’s land acquisitions and disposals.
• Blog by SA: Stonehenge and the National Trust, Sept 2018
• Blog by SA: National Trust votes against its founding principles, Oct 2017

Open Access to Stonehenge

• Open Access to Stonehenge, Public Facebook group Its purpose is to keep access open to Stonehenge and its byways

Parker Pearson, Mike

• Webinar presentation: Saving Stonehenge WHS: Archaeology, 3 June 2021 Video, slides and transcript  
• Video: Stonehenge tunnel sets a bad precedent, 2019 An archaeologist speaks out 

Parliament

• MPs’ Briefing by SA 
• Parliamentary Questions & Answers
• Westminster debate – 5 June 2018

Planning Inspectorate

• Video:  Process for Development Consent Order (DCO)
• A303 Stonehenge Overview and ‘What Happens Next’
• A303 Stonehenge DCO Application documents library  April – October 2019
• Examining Authority Report and Recommendations regarding A303 Stonehenge DCO Application – Submitted to the Transport Secretary on 2 January 2020, published in by the Planning Inspectorate on 12 November 2020 with his decision letter
• Inception meeting note with Highways England – 27 September 2017

Prehistoric Society

• Public Consultation response – 2017

RESCUE – The British Archaeological Trust

• Home – Rescue 
• Article: Rescue says: It’s not only the Stonehenge decision that should worry us all, December 2020
• Rescue says: A303 Stonehenge DCO granted – A sad day for our archaeological heritage, November 2020
• Resource: Fighting Back: Rescue help you campaign 

Royal Astronomical Society

• Stonehenge and ancient Astronomy (Briefing in pamphlet format, 2009)

Royal Society for the Protection of Birds

• Wessex Stone Curlew Project
• Stonehenge Casework – Worth Fighting For 
• Overview about the Stone Curlew project and Salisbury Plain by the RSPB, 2018
• Letter: RSPB’s position to Examining Authority, 2019 Risk to disturbance at Normanton Down arising from A303 scheme expected, but new additional plots accepted.
• Agreement with NH: Statement of Common Ground, Sept 2019

Salmon & Trout Conservation – Salisbury and District Angling Club

• Environmental Crisis on the River Avon near Stonehenge – Request for action: 9 March 2018

‘Save Stonehenge’ campaign: 1995 to 2007

• Save Stonehenge – campaign partner’s personal website. It was archived following government’s decision to abandon the scheme in December 2007.
• Press coverage – Comprehensive, historic, record. The titles encapsulate the story.

Scientific Committee for the A303 Stonehenge proposal with HMAG

• A303 Scientific Committee Set up in 2017 at the request of Highways England. 
• Membership of Scientific Committee
• Minutes of meetings

Society of Antiquaries

• Consultation response here, 2018

Stonehenge Alliance – Index

• About us 
• Archaeologist speaks out
• Article: Stonehenge: More than a monument
• Cartoons
• Correspondence between SA and Government and Authorities
• Donate
• Explainer: Explainer and Overview of planning process for NSIP (Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects) and DCOs (Development Consent Order) 
• Explainer: What are we campaigning for?
• FAQs
• Images and Maps: A303 Stonehenge scheme: images and maps, SA’s collection
• International support
• MP’s briefing (also for ambassadors, overseas culture secretaries)
• Mythbusters
• Overview: What is planned? Scheme components Video and slides
• Overview: What is planned? The Stonehenge Tunnel Video and slides
• Petition: UK addresses | World wide addresses | Petition page for totals and updates
• Position statement: Issues concerning potential solutions for the A303 at Stonehenge, March 2015
• Position statement: The A303 expansion at Stonehenge, Dec 2014
• Subscriber to our campaign
• Submissions: Redetermination: process grinds on July 2022 This blog with multiple documents will be updated with August’s consultations responses
• Submissions: Summary | Full submission  (multiple documents) SA’s Case against A303 Stonehenge scheme
• UNESCO and Stonehenge World Heritage 
• Videos
• Webinar: Saving Stonehenge World Heritage Site: Video of presentations, Q&A and discussion, 3 June 2021
• A303 Stonehenge scheme consultations:
  • Stonehenge Alliance responses to consultations, 2018
  • Responses from other organisations to statutory consultation
  • Letter: A supporters response to  extra consultation, 2018
  • Blogs: Write to Highways England 2018  | Respond to Highways England again! | Guide to online questionnaire, 2018
  • Article: Stonehenge Alliance responds and calls for a re-run, 2017
  • Analysis: Highways England feedback, 2017

Stonehenge and Avebury WHS

• Management Plan: 2015 
• Representation by S&A WHS Coordination Unit – May 2019

Stonehenge Hidden Landscapes Project

• Gaffney, V et al, A massive late Neolithic pit structure associated with Durrington Walls Henge, 2020

Stonehenge Saga

• Stonehenge Saga: ‘A Smouldering Dispute’, plus chronological history of government proposals and associated campaigns,1980s onwards

Transport Action Network (TAN)

• Home – TAN
• Article – RIS2 and Carbon from 50 schemes including A303 Stonehenge 
• Roads: strategic and local

UNESCO

• Decision: 44th World Heritage Committee in Fuzhou, China 22 July 2021: Decision Consider placing Stonehenge on World Heritage in Danger If scheme in current form goes ahead 
• UNESCO/ICOMOS Mission reports and other WH Committee decisions listed here
• Inscription of Stonehenge, Avebury and Associated Sites World Heritage Site 
• Stonehenge and Associated Monuments: Map of nominated area, 1985 Buffer zones had not been introduced at the time, but the WHS wider setting is an important aspect of this nomination. 

Videos

• Index – Over 20 videos by objectors 

Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Society (Wiltshire Museum)

• Home – WANHS
• Update:  The A303 Stonehenge tunnel – where are we now? Dec 2020
• Submission: DCO consultation on new finds, 2020 Response restates WANHS’ principles that inform their objection
• Response following consultation with WANHS members, 2018
• Paper by Jacques, D et al: Summary Blick Mead 2014 (University of Buckingham), in full Published in ‘Wiltshire Archaeological & Natural History Magazine’  107 (2014), 7-27

Wiltshire Council

• See position and updates here
• Resource: Rights of Way Explorer

World Heritage Watch

Latest position of scheme proposal and that of objectors is published in WHW annual report.  This report includes many WHS at risk, as well as some on the list of World Heritage in danger. See links on International support page.

Young, Elizabeth and Wayland Kennet

• The Stonehenge: Saga Continues, Nov 2000 A lively account by the Kennets of the many proposals since 1986.  First published in the Journal of Architectural Conservation (No. 3, November 2000, pp.70-85) entitled ‘Stonehenge: the Saga Continues’ reproduced in full by kind permission of the authors’ family.
• Obituary Lord Kennet, May 2009
• Obituary Lady Kennet, Jan 2015

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