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.....
