A303 Consent Order Process 2

Many of you who follow this blog will have seen this "Development Consent Order Process" diagram on a previous blog.   Last Thursday 5th January, we held an update meeting here at STAG HQ.   Those present: Our contacts from the National Trust, Cllr Ian West, Dr Andrew Shuttleworth, myself and Dave Hassett as members of the STAG team.
We understood that "rooms" were booked in both Winterbourne Stoke and Shrewton village halls, for Highways England to present "Stage One" of the process for week commencing 9th January.....but.....nothing was set in stone as to the date or time of the presentations and when I called my contact at Highways England the following day, and asked "what about the rooms" she told me the rooms were provisional and confirmed what National Trust told us...that we're all awaiting further notice from "the black door" in Whitehall - the plot thickens!    Many e-mails going two & fro over the weekend told us that the presentations were pushed to the right and the room bookings may have to be cancelled for now anyway!    So, not too disappointed but things change as we all know in media and politics.... and they did - by Tuesday afternoon, it appears things are all back on track and there will be more on this in my next blog.....Exciting!

Such optimism back then eh?......it's now the 13th August 2022 and not a spade in site.  Project held up by them at Stonehenge Alliance as mentioned many times in this blog!!!😫😞