National Trust Members read this.....

• My thanks to Paul Timlett for posting this on Facebook....
• We need your vote AGAINST this resolution!! Go to www.ersvotes.com/nt17 you will need your membership card handy.....
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• "ARE YOU A NATIONAL TRUST MEMBER? IF SO PLEASE READ ON
  The National Trust AGM takes place on 21 October 2017. A handful of members have tabled a resolution to de-rail the construction of the A303 Stonehenge Tunnel. They have secured 50 supporters which means the resolution must be debated and voted upon at the AGM.
  The Board of the National Trust recommends that members vote against this resolution.
  This group of members has consistently misused data to suggest that traffic is reducing in the area. They even admit that the statistics are spurious.
  

  They claim that congestion on the A303 leading to rat-running through local communities only occurs during holidays and weekends. This is patently untrue as anyone who actually lives here will tell you.
  They have argued that certain areas of archaeology will be damaged as a result of the works, something the Trust's own archaeologists have denied. They want the Government to either a) find another £600m to extend the tunnel (the Trust says a longer tunnel will damage archaeology outside the World Heritage Site), or b) explore other options. We have spent 30 years exploring other options, all of which have been rejected.
  This is the first time in the 25 years I have lived here that there is consensus around a solution - the tunnel as proposed by Government. The consensus includes English Heritage, Historic England, National Trust, Wiltshire Council, leading archaeologists and the majority of local residents. If this resolution succeeds there will never be a solution to the current situation. It will result in the continuing blight of the World Heritage Site by traffic on the existing A303 and condemn local communities to generations of misery and threat to our lives as ever increasing volumes of traffic uses the villages to avoid the daily congestion on the A303. It will cause economic damage to the immediate area as well as further to the South West.
  This handful of people and their celebrity chums (who don't even know where our villages are yet still claim that the traffic is a minor inconvenience) risk de-railing everything we have worked for over decades through their use of misinformation and sensationalism. We had hope that our lives would be made better but these misguided people seem determined to remove that hope.
  So if you are a member of National Trust please back the Board and vote AGAINST this resolution. You must do this by Friday 13 October either using the voting forms you have been sent or online at www.ersvotes.com/nt17
  Please help us and the World Heritage Site. Thanks for reading this".

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  11 Janice Hassett

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  David Hassett Absolutely in agreement. The group in question have membership of multiple Organisations/Charities and have been active in trying to de-rail the A303 schemes for at least 11 years. I exhort National Trust Members to follow the Board's recommendation, and if you know a member, but you're not a member yourself, please spread the word. Thank you.
  

  
  

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  Janice Hassett Well said to both.....please use your vote to stop this de-railment or attend the AGM at the Steam Museum Swindon on Saturday 21st October and cast your vote there....we're going!
  

  
  

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