Stonehenge Alliance Press Release The Stonehenge Alliance [1] has welcomed today’s announcement by Chancellor Rachel Reeves to cancel the £2.5bn A303 Stonehenge scheme [2] as a “low value, unaffordable commitment” [3]. The Stonehenge Alliance believe the road should have been binned in 2020 when it was recommended for refusal, after … Continue reading →
Stonehenge Alliance Press statement: Tuesday, 25 June, 2024 The Stonehenge Alliance (SA) [1] welcomes UNESCO’s recommendation that the Stonehenge and Avebury World Heritage Site be placed on the List of World Heritage in Danger due to the threat from the A303 road scheme. The recommendation is contained in a report … Continue reading →
Stonehenge Alliance comments on National Highways’ planning application for a replacement stone-curlew, prompted journalist, Gareth Huw Davies, to ask in this guest article: “At a time of declining biodiversity, should we deliberately risk degrading a complex mesh of natural life in favour of a road scheme?” The first casualty of … Continue reading →
An excellent video by Matt Sibson of Ancient Architects that comprehensively demolishes any thoughts that the A303 Stonehenge road scheme is about conservation. At the heart of Sibson’s objection is the commodification of Stonehenge, tidying up the landscape and making it look “pretty” for tourists whilst risking the destruction of … Continue reading →
A ‘mythbusting’ item has been published by English Heritage as part of a joint press release on behalf of English Heritage, National Trust and Historic England. We reproduce these ‘mythbusters’ with our responses beneath. PLEASE NOTE 6 August 2020: Since publishing the link to English Heritage’s page above their mythbusters … Continue reading →
