2024

July

“Save Stonehenge!”  “No Stonehenge tunnel!”  Will Government Act to save its blushes?

Trio of video interviews by Tom Holland with Professor Mike Parker Pearson 

June

UNESCO raises the stakes over Stonehenge

May

Are National Highways’ provisions for the rare stone-curlew on the Salisbury Plain secure?

April

Stonehenge road scheme costs have ballooned 🎈

National Highways actions premature and could waste more public money 🚧

February

Cruel blow as challenge suffers setback

January

Judgment awaited.  Please keep up the pressure

2023

October

National Highways granted powers over the unruly

Video appeals launched

September 

Kate Fielden remembered

UNESCO committee stand firm against Stonehenge road scheme

Petition presented to UNESCO, Paris

August

“FFS!” Outraged supporters pledge powerfully, eloquently, succinctly.

July

First steps to legal proceedings taken on Stonehenge road scheme on second anniversary of quashing of development consent

June 

The Climate Change Committee’s advice on new road building: will it be ignored?

Publication of World Heritage Watch Report 2023 – Summary of key issues 

2022

December 

The Mole Report: Stonehenge road scheme doesn’t add up!

November

Exchanges at the National trust A303 Stonehenge debate

Campaign update: National Trust remains deaf to concerns about A303 road scheme

October

National Trust Member’s resolution about the A303 at Stonehenge

September

MP’s letter will seriously mislead Transport Secretary 

August

Short tunnel is no short cut.  Back to the drawing board? 

July

Redetermination process grinds on – This blog includes links to Stonehenge Alliance responses, updated for each stage by topic and deadline with brief summary of content

March

Redetermination: Transport Secretary wants to hear from you

January

Redetermination: National Highways responses

2021

November 

Ask your MP to scrap Stonehenge scheme!

September

Alliance asks Prime Minister to abandon scheme

July

Stonehenge at risk of being placed on World Heritage in Danger list

June

Presentation by Professor Phil Goodwin

Presentation by Professor Mike Parker Pearson

Save Stonehenge WHS: Court Hearing

Saving Stonehenge WHS 3 June: webinar presentations and discussions in full

May

What is planned? Part Two: The Stonehenge Tunnel

What is planned? Part One: Scheme components

February

Success at the first hurdle, but more hurdles ahead!

George McDonic (1927 – 2021), Chairman of Stonehenge Alliance

January

Thank you! Our target has been reached 

2020

December 

The battle to save Stonehenge WHS is on: legal claim submitted 

November

Archaeology leaders stand up for common sense 

The A303 Stonehenge Examiners recommended refusal. Why?

Road to drive chasm through World Heritage Site

A303 Stonehenge Tunnel petition closes in on 150,000

August

Decision postponed: opposition to Stonehenge road scheme surges

March

Grotesque act of desecration by British Government – but is it a done deal?

February

An urgent request – write to the Chancellor!

2019

October

Fate of Stonehenge World Heritage Site in the balance!

May

Examination of the Stonehenge tunnel project now underway

April

Stonehenge Tunnel: Starting gun fired at Salisbury Racecourse

2018

December

Register to object to A303 Stonehenge Expressway by 11 January 2019

November

A303 Stonehenge Expressway – A monumental disaster!

October

Sacrilege! An archaeologist speaks out on centenary of Stonehenge gift

September

Stonehenge and the National Trust

July

Stonehenge Alliance complains about fake news

Stonehenge, UNESCO and the Spanish Amendments

June

MPs’ debate raises alarm for Stonehenge heritage

March

Confusing messages in the CBA’s “Stonehenge Special”

February

Sleep walking into a national scandal

Busting the Mythbusters!

2017

October

National Trust votes against its founding principles

“World Heritage Site: A status worth fighting for?” Isabelle Anatole-Gabrielle, Chief of Europe & N America for World Heritage Centre, UNESCO

September

Are you a National Trust member?

Alliance shocked by Highways England’s indifference to UNESCO’s advice

The Stonehenge Expressway: an eloquent emblem of a failed transport policy Guest blog by Emeritus Professor Tim Marshall

August

Highways England’s Chief Executive snubs UNESCO’s advice

July

Reprieve for Stonehenge WHS?

May

Dear Candidate, I have 3 questions for you…(video) 

Two questions to candidates #GE2017

March 

Archdruid leads tunnel protest amidst uncertainty

Stonehenge Alliance responds and calls for a re-run

January 

A303 Consultation: Key points (with scheme timetable added)

A303 Short tunnel: Transport and planning considerations

A303 tunnel impacts on archaeology and ecology

Just 7 weeks to have your say on the short tunnel!

Some unanswered questions about Stonehenge and the A303

2016

December

Must the car dominate Stonehenge 30 years on?

November 

Short video created for campaign

New campaign leaflet launched

June

Signing the petition from home or abroad

A ‘smouldering dispute’: The Stonehenge saga continues

May

Objection to permanent coach park at WHS

UNESCO report welcomed

April

Countdown to A303 Stonehenge engineering works

March

Stonehenge and the A303: Westminster speaks

January

Options for the A303 at Stonehenge: where do we stand?

The myth of a surface dual carriageway instead of a short tunnel

2015

December

Navitus Bay refusal: precedent for Stonehenge?

November

Save Stonehenge comes top of the Lush pots

Archaeologists debate A303 at Stonehenge

October

Stonehenge Alliance explains concerns to UNESCO mission

September

Has the Government revealed its hand about the A303 at Stonehenge?

Celebrating the Autumn Equinox

New discovery highlights road building folly

August

A303 and Stonehenge: The latest position

July

Enthusiasm for short bored tunnel undimmed

A303 widening threatens hidden Stonehenge archaeology

June

Batting with a purpose “Don’t Stump Stonehenge”

The real challenge – spending wisely

May

UNESCO responds to our concerns

Could Stonehenge tunnel be ‘sacred version’ of Twyford Down?

Take action and stand up for Stonehenge

April

Voters want to hear more about the environment

World Heritage Day challenge

March

Historian opposes tunnel plan

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