Write to UNESCO

You can write UNESCO today to lend support to UNESCO’s advice that the Government should explore options for a widened A303 that would not cause further damage to Stonehenge World Heritage Site.

By post: Madame Irena Caquet, Chief of Europe & North America Unit, UNESCO, 7 Place de Fontenoy, 75352 Paris CEDEX 07, France.

By Email: i.caquet@unesco.org

Please complete the action below to send an email directly to Madame Irena Caquet at UNESCO. You can edit the message.

Madame Irena Caquet,

I am shocked that our Government is redetermining a discredited scheme, ignoring the decisions of the World Heritage Committee and might proceed with the highly damaging A303 Stonehenge road scheme that would cause significant harm to the Stonehenge World Heritage Site (WHS).  The decision to grant a Development Consent Order was declared unlawful following a recent High Court hearing.
 
This is to disregard the advice of the World Heritage Centre and the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) following their advisory mission reports for Stonehenge WHS. It also overrides the recommendations of the UK Government’s own Examination Panel that said the scheme should not go ahead because it would do “substantial harm to the significance of the designated heritage asset”.
 
No road scheme should be permitted to cause further damage to the WHS, which is agreed by UNESCO and our Government, to be a "landscape without parallel".  I urge UNESCO’s World Heritage Centre and the World Heritage Committee to continue to speak up for our highly valued WHS.  I would be horrified if this damaging road scheme were to be built leading to the possibility of its World Heritage status being withdrawn.

Yours sincerely,

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