New brooms at UNESCO perhaps?

So when I was just starting out in my office career in the Contracts Department of Mssrs W & T Avery in their Glasgow office (yes, the weighing machine people) and still wet behind the ears, my tutors always advised that I "look back at the history" before taking action on recent information.   This makes me think that there may be "new brooms" at UNESCO who weren't given this advice and rather than "looking back"..... have merely listened to our friends at: https://stonehengealliance.org.uk/stonehenge-at-risk-of-being-placed-on-world-heritage-in-danger-list/#decision and recently - last year to be precise, UNESCO appear to have changed their tune from their opinion back in 2007.....

My thanks to a Shrewton resident who has copied me in on his letter to the https://www.theguardian.com/tone/letters to hi light this change of tune from UNESCO......

Sent: 24 July 2021 08:54
To: 'guardian.letters@theguardian.com' <guardian.letters@theguardian.com>
Subject: UNESCO and Stonehenge in 2007

Please protect Stonehenge World Heritage Site (WHS) from traffic (UNESCO 2007 stance)!

In 2007 UNESCO put out the following statement (see: https://whc.unesco.org/en/news/400)

"UNESCO regrets the U.K. government's decision to cancel the A303 Stonehenge Road Improvement scheme on the basis of cost concerns and hopes that another solution will be found to relieve traffic congestion around the World Heritage property of Stonehenge, Avebury and Associated sites. UNESCO's World Heritage Centre, which has been actively involved in finding a solution to this problem in recent years, will provide a report on the situation to the World Heritage Committee at its next meeting in Québec, Canada in July 2008.

The issue of traffic congestion around Stonehenge, Avebury and Associated sites, inscribed on UNESCO's World Heritage List in 1986, has been the subject of discussion at the World Heritage Committee since 2004. In its 2005 decision in Durban, South Africa, the Committee regretted that no progress had been made in the implementation of the A303 Stonehenge Improvement Scheme - which prescribed a 2.1 kilometre tunnel within the World Heritage site - and urged the State Party of the United Kingdom "to find an appropriate solution compatible with the outstanding universal value of the property".

Following the decision to cancel the A303 project, the World Heritage Centre will submit a State of Conservation report to the World Heritage Committee so that it can fully examine the implications of this decision for the value and integrity of Stonehenge as a World Heritage property."

"Please explain to residents of Shrewton and other local villages that are severely blighted by rat-run traffic from the A303 why, in 2020, doing nothing seems to be your preferred option.

(letter to UNESCO, 14th November 2020, as requested by The Stonehenge Alliance)

The Stonehenge Alliance is an influential pressure group so reporting on this issue is sadly rather one-sided.

The many who suffer from the traffic on the A303, whether businesses, holiday-makers, local residents or visitors to Stonehenge, are just not heard".

From a Shrewton resident to the Guardian Newspaper.https://www.theguardian.com/tone/letters