Court of Appeal up held - sadly!

And here's an update of the money SSWHS/Stonehenge Alliance have the ability to collect from people who don't live anywhere near the problem - some in other countries, and who don't understand and follow the lies!  

At 10.50 today 24th May - £104,870.00

This has come in from the A303 Project Director at National Highways:                                            

A303 Stonehenge - Court of Appeal update

On Friday 17 May, the Court of Appeal informed us that Save Stonehenge World Heritage Site’s appeal will be heard in the Court of Appeal.    

https://stonehengealliance.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/2024-05-21-permission-to-appeal-web.pdf

We are hugely disappointed by this decision, which will cause more delays to this scheme as the next stage of the legal process unfolds.  
We will participate fully in any future legal proceedings to continue to present the case for the scheme, working closely with Department for Transport (Dft)

What does this mean for the scheme? 
We still have our Development Consent Order (DCO) in place, so the scheme isn’t cancelled, but this extra legal process will delay the start of our preliminary works and we’ll need to adjust the whole main works programme accordingly. We don’t know what that will look like yet, because we don’t know the extent of the delay. We can’t determine the length of that legal process, and we will need to work closely with DfT and our legal teams to understand what our next steps are.  

What happens next? 
We need to await the date for the hearing, which the Court of Appeal will decide. At the hearing, both sides will present their case and the judge in charge will use this to make their decision. They will either quash or uphold this latest legal challenge. If it’s quashed, that means we’ll be able to go ahead with the scheme, because there would be no other legal route for opposition groups to pursue. If the challenge is upheld, the Department for Transport would decide what to do next, working closely with the project team and National Highways to do so. 

What about the A360 temporary closure? 

This work will continue without any change.  You can find more about this work on the A360 temporary closure webpage (www.a360temporaryclosure.co.uk) provided and updated by Southern and Southern Electricity Networks (SSEN) who are carrying out this work on our behalf.  

A303 Amesbury to Berwick Down Info​​​​ A303 Stonehenge Project Email:  info@a303stonehenge.co.uk Web:  nationalhighways.co.uk/our-roads/a303-stonehenge/ So! SSWHS need a further £134,000.00 for this appeal - they will get this money from all around the world - from people who don't even know where the World Heritage Site is or have ever visit same!   They have two appeals to achieve this - one for the UK and one for International collections. I'm not going to provide the information on my blog....you'll have to read the link above! Very sad for the people who work tirelessly on the project for it to be knocked back for a third time.....not the mention the increased cost to the tax payer!!