A303 Stonehenge DCO application

• A303 DCO: Summary of where we have go to 
• LIVE DCO – Detailed timeline from 2014 to present–  with links to documents, including Stonehenge Alliance representations

A303 Scientific Committee

• Home page
• Reference to Blick Mead and monitoring – 17 Aril 2019
• Includes discussion on sampling – 2 July 2019
• Explains redetermination process and documentation – 4 November 2022

Amesbury Museum Heritage Trust

• Amesbury Museum Heritage Trust Facebook page

Archives

• Campaign Timeline – Stonehenge Alliance from 2002 to present
• Young, E and Kennet, W (2000) – The Stonehenge Saga Continues [Period between 1986 – 2000]
• History of the A303
• Save Stonehenge! Archived website 1987 to 2007

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

Biodiversity

• Environmental Information Review, April 2022

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

Campaign Timeline

Campaign Archive

• Save Stonehenge! Archived website up to 2007

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
• 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
• 6303_CBA response to 2018 Highways England proposals for A303 tunnel– 23 April 2018
• 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
• Kate Fielden remembered (July 2023) – Obituaries
• Kate’s submissions and representations can be found under Stonehenge Alliance below

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 

History of the A303

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

International Petition

• Petition page 
• 38 Degrees (UK addresses only)
• Change.org (World wide)

James, Alan

• Analysis: Cultural Heritage Value Report, May 2019 Submitted as written representation for SA
• Response to redetermination 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.

Maps, Images & Plans

Marshall, Tim

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

Media and Social 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

MPs’ Briefing

• MPs’ Briefing 
• Latest position

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

N – Z Some material is missing, updating in progress.  Apologies for inconvenience.

Planning Inspectorate

• A303 Stonehenge project in formation 

Scientific Committee

• See A303 Scientific Committee above

Petition

• Petition page 
• 38 Degrees (UK only)
• Change.org (World wide)

Stonehenge Alliance

• Correspondence with authorities
• DCO Responses
• Parliamentary Questions and Answers 
• Petitions: UK and Worldwide

Stonehenge and Avebury World Heritage Site (Partnership)

• Stonehenge and Avebury WHS Management Plan 2015 (current)
• Partners 
• Avebury and Stonehenge Archaeological and Historical Research Group (ASAHRG)
• WHC Nomination Documentation Retrospective (November 1997) attaching original document signed by Lord Elton, Minister of State, December 1985
• Sustainable Management – statement

Transport Action Network

• Home page

UNESCO

• About World Heritage 
• Stonehenge, Avebury and Associated Sites – Description
• UNESCO – key player
• World Heritage Committee: Decisions, Statements of Conservation and other documents
• World Heritage Convention

Wiltshire Council

• Public rights of way

World Heritage Watch

 

 

 

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