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Friday 5 April 2019

I appeal....please get on board and fight this!


https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/apr/02/concerns-grow-as-plans-for-a303-road-tunnel-past-stonehenge-enters-new-phase This appeared in The Guardian on Thursday of this week.  STAG attended this meeting with just three representatives, but this was neither the forum nor the place to put our case because it was supposed to be a "preliminary" Hearing and should not have developed into a platform for Stonehenge Alliance to react in the way in which they did outside their spokesperson. 
I appeal....STAG... cannot do this on our own and so we need your help if we are to improve our lives currently blighted by ran running traffic from the current state of the A303!
http://stonehengealliance.org.uk/ This is the link to Stonehenge Alliance who are presently preparing their case against the scheme, and are sending a blanket e-mail all around the world....to people who know nothing of the area, appealing for funds to fight their case!!   We, who need this scheme, should get on board and fight for something to be done about the A303 at Stonehenge, which IS NOT FIT FOR PURPOSE, running 84% over capacity.   This means, from the eastern outskirts of Amesbury, a high percentage of vehicles are seeking alternative routes which takes in unsuitable narrow roads running through Bulford, Larkhill, Shrewton and Chitterne villages with Shrewton being arguably the worst affected.   As previously reported, numbers of vehicles using just one of the four entrances to our village of Shrewton, over a 4 month period, registered 280,604, representing 1800 per day, using our High Street and Tanners Lane!   We have a paucity of pavements, elderly, mothers with prams and children, using our roads and something needs to be done about this situation!   The followers of Stonehenge Alliance need to take this on board along with their ideals and should of necessity give as much credence to this obvious issue, as they do to their protestations relating to possible damage to the "as yet undiscovered archaeology" in the Stonehenge World Heritage Site!   The term "Statement of Common Ground" was used at the meeting rather a lot, but I'm afraid Stonehenge Alliance did not appear to understand what a "Statement of Common Ground" entails.  It appears they have no common ground with any of the parties, who have a differing view.
HERE IS THE LINK TO GET INVOLVED and have your say at the OPEN FLOOR HEARINGS:
https://infrastructure.planninginspectorate.gov.uk/wp-content/ipc/uploads/projects/TR010025/TR010025-000511-190304%20TR010025%20Rule%206%20letter%20-%20Cover%20FINAL.pdf
Yes, it's a huge document and you do not need to read all of it, but application to speak at the Open Floor Hearing must be put forth by the 18th April.   More information will be available soon, as to when or which forum at which we need to speak.
The names of the panel can be found on the link above, and I am informed that the Forum is extremely formal and one must address Madam Chair directly.   She is clearly very experienced and was quick to take control last Tuesday of the "shouty people" who could have turned the Hearing into a platform for Stonehenge Alliance!!!


1 comment:

Dr.Strange said...

Great emphasis was made at the Preliminary Meeting of identifying Statements of Common Ground, which in any 'normal' situation is obvious, and laudable: however, when you're dealing with Organisations that refuse to accept a problem exists, they obviously 1. won't produce an alternative, credible solution and 2. would be incapable of embracing the principle that there is a problem....