Planning Inspectorate has accepted....

So! a nice lady from Highways England with a very long title:

"Communications Engagement Manager for the A303 Amesbury to Berwick Down Stonehenge Project".....wrote to me yesterday asking if I would put out an update for those who might be following what is now considered a major project for Highways England and the government...and so here it is, along with the Timeline for the whole project:

Progress report

Our application for a development consent order to build the scheme has been accepted by the Planning Inspectorate. You can view our application and register as an interested party between 8 December 2018 and 11 January 2019 on the the Planning Inspectorate’s website.

This is an important milestone as it signifies another step towards improving this vital route to the south west.

We have also produced an explanatory booklet to help you understand the proposed scheme. It sets out the key elements on the scheme, reflecting its development since consultation, and will act as a guide to important information for those wanting to engage with the Planning Inspectorate’s examination of our proposals.

Much more information can be found here including the updated Explanatory booklet and shows that Highways England have listened and taken on board our responses to the recent consultations held earlier this year: 

https://highwaysengland.co.uk/projects/a303-stonehenge-amesbury-and-berwick-down/ 

What's next
The A303 improvement past Stonehenge is classified as a Nationally Significant Infrastructure Project and will be considered under the Planning Act 2008. Under the Act, applicants apply for a Development Consent Order (DCO) from the Secretary of State for Transport.

We submitted the DCO application on 19 October 2018 to the Planning Inspectorate who accepted it on 16 November 2018. The Inspectorate will now arrange a detailed examination of the application, in which stakeholders and the public can participate, before making a recommendation to the Secretary of State who will make the final decision on the scheme proceeding.

More details about the examination process can be found on the Planning Inspectorate’s website.

Timeline

Date	Event
2013	A303 feasibility study announced as part of the Autumn Statement
2014	Scheme included in the Roads Investment Strategy
2015-2016	Route options assessed
12 January to 5 March 2017	Non-statutory consultation on route options
September 2017	Preferred route announced
8 February to 23 April 2018	Statutory consultation on proposed scheme
17 July to 14 August 2018	Supplementary consultation
19 October 2018	Development consent order application submitted
16 November 2018	Development consent order accepted for examination
Early 2019	Begin public examination
2021 (planned)	Start work on site

More Bl....y Meetings...

In October 2013, when I started this blog, I posted up "A303 Meetings B..... Meetings".   Back then, the meetings were to attract the attention of village residents, anyone coming from anywhere in the world who needed to use the A303 past Stonehenge, Government, MP's, National Trust, Highways Agency (old title) and anyone else that would listen to my rantings of Rat Running through our village of Shrewton because......"The A303 is no longer fit for purpose" and needs to be "stashed away"....under ground! 

Well here we are in October 2018 and I'm still attending b....y meetings, and the A303 around Stonehenge is "still not fit for purpose"!!
However, we are making progress and the meetings now have taken a different tack and I would say, are more positive toward the project to fix the "not fit for purpose" road.
We now attend a "by monthly" meeting called the Highways England Forum and this is very interesting if you happen to be as sad about the project as I am.   In preparation for the last Forum held at the Holiday Inn last Thursday the 25th, I had even boned up on the term D C O!!!    What on earth is a D-C-O I hear you ask?.....well perhaps not, but it's an acronym for "Development Consent Order" and you can find out all about it if you go to: 
https://highwaysengland.co.uk/projects/a303-stonehenge-amesbury-and-berwick-down/ 
but to save you time, I've copied the important bit here.....

"Progress report

We've submitted our application for development consent for the scheme to the Planning Inspectorate. The application will appear on the Planning Inspectorate’s website.

Non-statutory consultation on the scheme took place between 12 January and 5 March 2017, followed by statutory consultation between 8 February and 23 April 2018, and supplementary consultation between 17 July and 14 August 2018.

We'd like to thank all who have participated. The responses have played a major part in shaping the scheme submitted for development consent.

What’s next

The A303 improvement past Stonehenge is classified as a Nationally Significant Infrastructure Project (NSIP) and will be considered under the Planning Act 2008. Under the Act, applicants apply for a Development Consent Order (DCO) from the Secretary of State for Transport.

We submitted the DCO application to the Planning Inspectorate on 18 October 2018. The Inspectorate will decide whether to accept the application within 28 days of submission. Following acceptance, the Inspectorate will undertake a detailed examination of the application, in which stakeholders and the public can participate, before making a recommendation to the Secretary of State.   More details can be found on the Planning Inspectorate’s website."

Of course, the thorn in everyone's side who want something done to alleviate the traffic in our village of Shrewton, while the A303 remains unfit for purpose, is an outfit (charity) called Stonehenge Alliance: www.stonehengealliance.org.uk    They're worried that Stonehenge will loose it's UNESCO World Heritage status if the road is put into a tunnel or at least one that's too short in their eyes......So what if it does, as I said in a previous posting some years back, the city of Dresden in Germany, lost their status in June 2009 because they built a waldschlosschenbrucke.....(large bridge to you and me)..... to alleviate traffic crossing the River Elbe and Dresden's tourism has not suffered as a result.   People from all over the world will continue to visit Stonehenge whether it has status or not because the average tourist probably don't have a clue who or what UNESCO are and just want the Stonehenge experience.

So! as we said, the DCO was submitted on 18th October and when the Planning Inspectorate make their decision in approximately 3 week's time, when hopefully, the project will be accepted for the pre examination stage.   There are a further 5 stages it must go through before the final decision by the Secretary of State.  If you're as sad as me about this project, you can find out everything about the project and watch a video here:  https://infrastructure.planninginspectorate.gov.uk/application-process/the-process/ 

Some Experiment?!

On the 4th July just a few weeks ago, I put up a blog showing a letter from Wiltshire Council that explains why the Byways around Stonehenge didn't open following this year's Summer Solstice.....
Some nice new purpose built gates at enormous expense no doubt, have been installed across Byways 12 and 11 off the A303. 
We spoke to the guys at the most recent Highways Consultation www.highways.gov.uk/A303stonehenge/consultation and asked them if they knew anything about the new gates, because I was certainly confused that on their Consultation booklet page 8 it shows the two Byways with a brown dotted line which is explained in the "key" as:
"Existing Byway open to all traffic".   Their answer was that more than one body were involved in the decision, Wiltshire Council being one of those and Amesbury Town Council another and we think of course that English Heritage Trust would have had a part in it too.   Highways had NO say in the decision to close the Byways and said that there were still remaining decisions to be made about Kent Carriage Gates because it would require a very skinny horse to get through the gap provided for cyclists, horse riders and walkers!!!!   Usual half baked idea from officialdom!
This begs the question.....Were local Council tax payers consulted prior the closure....NO! 
Take a look at the this video, this is the resulting effect.....an accident waiting to happen.....

https://www.facebook.com/StonehengeTrafficActionGroup/posts/2216906388545788?comment_id=2217801728456254

This is what Wiltshire Council say.....
"The experimental orders will help improve safety for people using the byways by removing the vehicles using the route which have increased since the closure of the A344. The orders will also prevent further damage to the byways and the adjoining World Heritage Site and preserve/improve the experience around Stonehenge for visitors now and in the future. While the experimental orders are in force, it will be considered if they should be made permanent".
Apparently, from this posting from Wiltshire Council, we have until 12th January to comment...
http://www.wiltshire.gov.uk/news/articles/comments-welcomed-on-experimental-byways-closures-in-stonehenge-world-heritage-site
Please "Like" our page on Facebook...thank you!

Caught on Camera!

Obviously the driver of this "Downton Delivers" truck ignored the sign at Rollestone Cross Roads advising him to turn left and use the main A360 to pass through our village.....42 tons verses 3.5 tons village weight limit!!!   On our Facebook page, comments are "missing" the chaos bit as mentioned by the person who made the vid.....is that what they want?.....chaos, accidents, Mums with prams being mowed down and one comment even misses a death!!!!!!!   Get a life I say!!!
This is the type of traffic we have to put up with in our High Street on a regular basis and we thank a village resident for switching on her in car DVR Camera to capture this footage......
https://www.facebook.com/StonehengeTrafficActionGroup/?ref=aymt_homepage_panel

Highways England update on A303 Project

This is the link to the latest update for the A303 project:

Highways England are anxious to engage with local people, experts and Stakeholders (STAG is one of those) and have listened to responses from the last consultation earlier this year, when they received over 5000 replies and have acted upon these.   You can update yourselves reading this link and yet again, another raft Consultation dates:
https://highwaysengland.co.uk/projects/a303-stonehenge-amesbury-and-berwick-down/

For the supplementary consultation, we will be holding two public information events and making printed materials available at libraries and other community venues local to the scheme.

Please come along to one of our information events to ask our project team about the supplementary consultation.

Date	Time	Venue	Address
Thursday 19 July 2018	2pm to 8pm	The Manor Barn	High St, Winterbourne Stoke, Salisbury, SP3 4SZ
Tuesday 31 July 2018	2pm to 8pm	Antrobus House	39 Salisbury Rd, Amesbury, SP4 7HH

Copies of the supplementary consultation materials, including a booklet and response forms, will be available for inspection free of charge from Tuesday 17 July 2018 to Tuesday 14 August 2018 at the following locations and times:

• Amesbury Library, Smithfield Street, Amesbury, Salisbury, SP4 7AL
• Tidworth Leisure Centre, Nadder Road, Tidworth,SP9 7QW
• Salisbury Library, Market Place, Salisbury, SP1 1BL
• Wiltshire Council Offices County Hall, Bythesea Road, Trowbridge, BA14 8JN
• Wilton Library, South Street, Wilton, SP2 0JS
• Devizes Community Hub and Library, Sheep Street, Devizes, SN10 1DL
• Marlborough Library, 91 High Street, Marlborough, SN8 1HD
• Warminster Library, 3 Horseshoe Walk, Warminster, BA12 9BT
• Westbury Library, Westbury House, Edward Street, BA13 3BD
• The Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre, Cocklebury Road, Chippenham, SN15 3QN

Thank you to everyone who came along to our events and submitted their responses for the previous consultation.

If you are following the progress of the scheme, you may well have followed earlier versions of this scheme. Some of these will have had different approaches and processes, or been governed by older legislation. We’ve put together a clear guide to the planning process we’re following: this explains exactly what happens, when, and how you get can get involved.

Why the By Ways didn't open following this year's Summer Solstice.....

 

 Those who have followed this blog since it's inception in 2013, may recall a posting with the title: "English Heritage...Hands off our By Ways" dated 8th May 2014 (which incidentally, 283 of you dropped in for a visit).....well we can confirm that according to a letter from Wiltshire Council's Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 that EH have now achieved their aim - in part!    whilst driving at the usual snail's pace along the A303 the other day, I did wonder why the barriers had remained in place at By Ways 11 and 12 after the this year's Summer Solstice, when normally they are removed during the week or weeks following.....and so, we have the answer here in this most recent
"Prohibition of Driving" experimental order - for 18 months.....as received from
"a chum"!!!

Huh! 18 months they say?   Well we think this could be OMD....
Ochestral Manouvers In The Dark by English Heritage, and you just wait, they will, after 18 months, announce that it's been a great success and make it permanent when we've taken our eye off the ball!
The Order may of course be "music to the ears" for some, but a Sad Song for those residents/itinerants who have remained on By Way 12 for years in some cases with their ramshackle collection of caravans, tents, little fires and dreadlocks!

Stonehenge Alliance....exposed!!

HTTP://www.facebook.com/bypasswinterbournestoke/?

Thank you to my friend Dr Andy Shuttleworth for this exposé

Thank you to my friend Dr Andy Shuttleworth for this exposé

We've been increasingly amused and bemused, in roughly equal measure, by the Stonehenge Alliance's ever more plaintiff bleatings on the subject of the A303 Stonehenge to Berwick Down scheme and especially the tunnel. We wondered who the Stonehenge Alliance actually influenced and who they were influenced by. To do this, we employed a nifty bit of Social Network analysis software that has been used to debunk many of the recent "fake news" stories. Quite fitting really.

When you look at the Stonehenge Alliance's social network, it looks a bit like a web and that's what it is - a web of interactions with other websites. The first map shows the first 600 links to and from their website. If you look top and centre, you will see node 116 for instance - that turns out to be the home page of the Mail on Sunday website. In fact, most of the major links to and from the Stonehenge Alliance website seem to be the Daily Mail. We ran the analysis a second time, but removing the links to the Daily Mail and Sunday Mail. This time all the major linkages were to and from the Archaeology Department at University College London. That might suggest that the Stonehenge Alliance is less of an alliance and more of a self-licking lollipop; generating populist news stories and then feeding off and believing your own propaganda......

Summer Solstice 2018

I was not available to attend this year's briefing for Summer Solstice so, thank you to my learned friend from Winterbourne Stoke for these details....and now I'll tell the world....have a good one!!

English Heritage have announced the following arrangements for Summer Solstice 2018.   Full details and links can be found at their website here and by clicking on the highlighted links below

Please note that last normal day admissions to Stonehenge is on Wednesday 20 June at 13:00 and the site will close at 15:00 in preparation for Summer Solstice Managed Open Access. Stonehenge is closed on Thursday 21 June and will re-open at 09:00 on Friday 22nd June.

English Heritage is pleased to provide free Managed Open Access to Stonehenge for Summer Solstice. We ask that if you are planning to join us for this peaceful and special occasion that you read the Conditions of Entry and the information provided on the following pages before deciding whether to come.

Stonehenge is a significant World Heritage Site and to many it is sacred – please respect the stones and all those who are attending.

Admission to the Summer Solstice at Stonehenge is free of charge.  We hope the weather will be kind and wish you a peaceful and celebratory solstice.

WEDNESDAY 20 JUNE
SOLSTICE CAR PARK OPENS 19.00 hours
ACCESS TO STONEHENGE MONUMENT FIELD 19.00 hours
SUNSET 21.26 hours

THURSDAY 21 JUNE
SUNRISE  04.52 hours
LAST ADMISSION TO SOLSTICE CAR PARK 06.00 hours (or when full)
STONEHENGE MONUMENT FIELD CLOSES 08.00 hours
SOLSTICE CAR PARK TO BE VACATED 12.00 hours (Noon)

For further information about Managed Open Access for Summer Solstice at Stonehenge, please call English Heritage Customer Services Solstice Information Hotline on 0370 333 1181.

Follow @eh_stonehenge on Twitter for live information during the Summer Solstice.

• Solstice Conditions of Entry
• Travelling to Stonehenge for Summer Solstice
• What (and what not) to bring
• Respect the Stones
• At Stonehenge – safety, facilities and welfare
• Disabled access
• Accommodation

• OLDER POST

  General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

MP out of area rocking the boat

Using this link, go to "Proposed road alteration around Stonehenge" on the right hand side:

https://www.parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/6d042e0https://www.parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/6d042e02-


Yes, long winded it may be, but the debate in Westminster Hall today, which was called by one Alex Burghart MP for Ongar, who was seeking assurances that in his considered opinion, the archaeology of inter alia Blick Mead, would not be damaged in the efforts to upgrade the A303 past Stonehenge. It is most unusual for an MP to call a debate "out of area", and as a minister our own johnglen.org.uk John Glen MP although in attendance in the chamber during said debate, was not allowed to take part. Having said that, he had obviously briefed a colleague who was allowed to get up and so, there seemed to be some sort of balance. In my opinion, Alex Burghart in calling this debate, had been given misleading information by our friends at Stonehenge Alliance and their cronies, and all of the detail had already been covered within the recent consultation from Highways England. I leave you to find out how the debate ended.......I did wonder however, who the "Scientific Committee for the A303 at Stonehenge" were...so here they are and supposed to be independent. http://a303scientificcommittee.org.uk/ 'fraid that didn't come across in the debate from Mr Burghart, but then he has been fed a line as previously mentioned.

Don't confuse the two ICOMOS's

This letter from ICOMOS UK appeared in the Gazette & Herald - a local newspaper to Wiltshire on 21st April 2018 and yes, it's long winded but needs reading from start to finish...especially that last paragraph where Mr Marsden the Chair of ICOMOS-UK would like the A303Stonehenge project "put on hold"!!!?
The UK version of ICOMOS - International Council on Monuments and Sites - should not be confused with ICOMOS whom we had an audience with on 7th March this year at the Holiday Inn, Amesbury, and are the "real" association who look after monuments and world heritage sites.

http://www.icomos-uk.org/uploads/sidebar/PDF/Stonehenge%20ICOMOS-UK%20Response%20to%20HA%20consultation%2021%20April%202018.pdf

Since the letter addressed to Highways "Agency" is easily found on Google, we felt the need to respond having had the approval from our contacts at: www.highways.gov.uk/A303Stonhenge/consultation and this is our reply copied to
The Rt Hon. Chris Graying MP Secretary of State for Transport...... https://www.gov.uk/government/people/chris-grayling

A303 update from Highways England.

Another day another meeting – about A303 matters, or at least it seems like it! On Tuesday evening, STAG attended the second of the new Highways England Forums which will take place by-monthly from now until time immemorial or 2025!!!

Highways England are anxious that we should be kept up to speed with the on-going project and hope that most people will have found the time to visit one of their consulations explaining where we are and what could be done. They would like your input in the “what could be done” bit and hope that as many of us will complete the response form with the help of the Public Consultation Booklet which can be collected at any of the remaining Consultations or most health centres and libraries in the area.

You can read this at: http://roads.highways.gov.uk/projects/a303-stonehenge-amesbury-and-berwick-down/

The booklet is easy to understand and is broken up into 3 sections: western section, central section, and eastern section. The response form gives you the chance to put your views on the proposals and the chance even to select the appearance of the tunnel entrances, portals, where green bridges might be best put, cycle tracks and by-ways, details of the new Longbarrow roundabouts, Countess roundabout and flyover and lots of other information that will affect us all in due course. Here’s the scary bit….Using the Consultation Booklet, the response form took me about 6 days to complete on-line, ducking in and out when I had the time, using the “save and come back later button”. Also, we have a little more time to complete our responses because of the recent bad weather….I received this e-mail yesterday:

“Dear Stonehenge Traffic Action Group

We wrote to you at the beginning of February about the launch of our formal public consultation on the proposals to upgrade the A303 past Stonehenge. The purpose of this email is to inform you that because we needed to cancel some of our consultation events due to the severe weather, we have decided to extend the formal consultation period until Monday 23 April 2018. This will allow time for rescheduled events in both Mere and Salisbury, and allow sufficient time for people to respond following these. Feedback from this consultation is important in helping us shape the scheme further; you can read more information at:

http://roads.highways.gov.uk/projects/a303-stonehenge-amesbury-and-berwick-down/ This includes details of the remaining public consultation events and the deposit locations where you can access printed copies of our consultation materials. If you have any questions you can phone us on 0300 123 5000 or email us at A303stonehenge@highwaysengland.co.uk “

And so, back to our meeting on Tuesday evening….this was very much an update from the one back in February, because the project is progressing so fast now. There are changes almost hourly and Highways England are anxious that we are kept up to speed….tho’ they know they can’t please all of the people all of the time, so there needs to be a compromise. They are doing their best in very difficult circumstances and terrain, not to mention archaeology and environment, which is all taken into account and can be read in the booklet. So! Please please please get involved and have your say, because it will be too late to complain when they submit the DCO – Development Consent Order to the planning inspectorate in the autumn of this year!!

You can continue to get updates locally at: 

https://www.facebook.com/StonehengeTrafficActionGroup/?

ref=aymt_homepage_panel 

or read the blog at: staga303.blogspot.co.uk

Best wishes

The STAG Team!

An audience with ICOMOS & UNESCO

So! our presentation with the big shots at ICOMOS & UNESCO went well and the folks from Paris and Australia weren't too scary at all. Gratifying to note that Richard McKay and Isobelle Antole Gabriel, were both taking notes on some points as I spoke but I had prepared 3 of everything in separate folders to be left for each of them, one of whom was called back to Paris early.   People who follow this blog, will be familiar with most of what I said but of course, the folks from ICOMOS & UNESCO were new to the situation and so here it is.....

Stonehenge Traffic Action Group
WHO WE ARE:
STAG: Stonehenge Traffic Action Group was set up by myself and my husband – Janice & David Hassett in September 2013. The purpose of which was to highlight the dangers of living in a village where rat running to avoid queues on the A303 past Stonehenge is the norm.
The campaign has evolved over time and a blog has been running since it’s inception, which has had over 41,000 visits from around the world. This can be reached at:
http://staga303.blogspot.co.uk/
and the facebook page: www.facebook.com/stonehengeTrafficActionGroup/ 
I would urge the good people from ICOMOS and UNESCO to take some time to have a read at both the blog and Facebook pages as this explains what has taken place over the course of 4.5 years. You will also be able to listen to the debate at the 2017 AGM of the National Trust where I stood up in support of the people of our village who have had to endure the problem of rat running which has increased hugely during this time.
I would like to point out that the majority of people against fixing the A303 past Stonehenge, don’t actually live in our area….some even live in London!!! and therefore do not suffer the way we do. The queues a few years ago, started on Friday afternoons – mostly west bound and continued all weekend till it all works in reverse, when on Sundays the queue is east bound. During school holidays, the queue is constant and in summer, all day and everyday. Much of this traffic diverts into our village where there is a paucity of pavements. We have elderly, mothers and children, cyclists and horse riders who all find our village currently, a dangerous place to live.
This is why we need to fix the A303 past Stonehenge and I’m certain that archaeologists from Highways England, National Trust and Heritage England have come together in an effort to make changes in a sympathetic and appropriate manner, whilst retaining the tranquillity of the World Heritage Site, and returning the land to nature and wild life. Putting the A303 into a tunnel will achieve all of this and there is no reason why there cannot be a balance between the living and the dead!

Those I refer to in the piece as - "not living in our area" and who don't therefore experience what we do, don't want anything done to fix the A303 past Stonehenge, would be our fiends from Stonehenge Alliance https://www.facebook.com/stonehengealliance/photos/pcb.2092221584345870/2092219054346123/?type=3&theater      With members most notable being Historian Dan Snow, Tom Holland and of course Tony Robinson....Baldrick to you and me!!.....unfortunately, Baldrick didn't turn up at their demonstration on Thursday 8th March outside the Consultation at The Society of Antiquaries, Piccadili in London, presumably because his turnip crop failed and he wouldn't be able to carry out his plan mentioned in our previous blog titled " Baldrick has a Cunning Plan" dated 11th February 2017 which was..... To block up both tunnel portals east and west with two enormous turnips!!! 

An Audience with.....

STAG: Stonehenge Traffic Action Group 
have yet again been asked to do a presentation to ICOMOS and UNESCO.   This time the hosts are www.highways.gov.uk/A303Stonehenge/consultation 
This will take place on Wednesday at the Holiday Inn, Amesbury and will be our second time of doing this, the last time being October 2015. Along with the usual opposition, we have a 20 minute slot at 11am to get our point across and this could make or break the A303 project.
There will be three representatives from ICOMOS and UNESCO – two archaeologists from France and an architect from Australia ……no pressure then!!   
More of this after next Wednesday and no doubt the media will pick up on it too.....

A303 update..what a load of Aurochs!

https://highwaysengland.citizenspace.com/he/a303-stonehenge-2018/https://highwaysengland.citizenspace.com/he/a303-stonehenge-2018/ The announcement from Highways England today is a major step forward in the development for fixing the A303 past Stonehenge and to alleviate rat running through local villages, including Shrewton. You can reach the full details on Highways England web page using the link. The consultations start tomorrow 9th February and continue till 6th April giving everyone a chance to have their say, and talk to the team working on this very important project. Looking at the list, there are Consultations around this area of Stonehenge, so please please give up a little of your time to get updated.
The encouraging part of this is that Highways England are keen to keep us up to speed on this evolving situation and from now on, STAG along with local Councillor's and Stakeholders, will attend a newly set up Forum on a by monthly basis for this reason.
There are many naysayers against doing anything about the A303 at Stonehenge including our friends at Stonehenge Alliance, and of course our friend Professor David Jacques from Buckingham University who has gone to print about his beloved Blick Mead near Amesbury, https://www.buckingham.ac.uk/research/hri/blickmead   He's saying that it could be destroyed forever!. This morning in the Western Daily Press https://www.somersetlive.co.uk/ he has said "it seems blatantly obvious the Stonehenge landscape is unutterably precious, and if you tamper with it, you are not going to get it back!"   He goes on to say that he's "surprised that there are even two points of view about this".  I understood we lived in a democracy Professor Jaques where everyone has an opinion to offer! So I call this scaremongering and here again I say....we need to get a balance between the living and dead!  
It's certain that archaelogists from both www.highways.gov.uk and the National Trust www.nationaltrust.org.uk will have thoroughly investigated the area for sensitive finds etc.  Professor Jaques, I presume you don't live anywhere near our village that suffers from rat run traffic every day of the year and particularly weekends and school holidays. The facts are that our SID: (Speed Indicator Device) Smiley Face to you and me.....

during a 3 week period last September, registered 41,000 vehicles east bound and 43,000 vehicles west bound, using our village to cut through back onto the beleaguered A303 and this was not school holidays!!!   We regularly register speeds in excess of 39 mph in the 30 and have had 87mph!!!