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Thursday 5 July 2018

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.
DateTimeVenueAddress
Thursday 19 July 20182pm to 8pmThe Manor BarnHigh St, Winterbourne Stoke, Salisbury, SP3 4SZ
Tuesday 31 July 20182pm to 8pmAntrobus House39 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.

Wednesday 4 July 2018

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!