The National Trust’s support for widening the A303 with a short tunnel near Stonehenge – avoiding its own land – is vital to the Government in advancing today’s A303 Preferred Route in spite of the strong concerns of UNESCO’s World Heritage Centre and World Heritage Committee, the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS), … Continue reading →
Leaks from a Fake News report by a Select Committee of MPs have recently hit the media. Committee Chairman Damian Collins is quoted as saying: “We are facing nothing less than a crisis in our democracy — based on the systematic manipulation of data to support the relentless targeting of … Continue reading →
For a third time, the UK Government has invited a joint UNESCO World Heritage Centre/ICOMOS mission to Stonehenge to give specialist advice on the A303 project. Based on the 2018 Advisory Mission’s findings [1] a Report and Draft Decision [2] were prepared for discussion at the annual World Heritage Committee meeting in … Continue reading →
Yesterday’s Westminster Hall debate, called by Alex Burghart, Conservative MP for Brentwood and Ongar, was both timely and critical in informing Members of Parliament about the unsurpassed heritage of the World Heritage Site (WHS) – and for flushing out some worrying misunderstandings of proponents of the A303 Stonehenge short tunnel scheme. Despite the … Continue reading →
The Council for British Archaeology (CBA) has commissioned a special edition of its members’ magazine British Archaeology “designed to inform debate about the proposed road tunnel at Stonehenge”. Unfortunately for the CBA, it sends some confusing messages. Although the writer states that the views expressed are his own and not about … Continue reading →
