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:
or read the blog at: staga303.blogspot.co.uk
Best wishes
The
STAG Team!
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