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Why did the Planning Inspectorate recommend tthe Government should turn down the #StonehengeTunnel?
Because it threatens "substantial harm" to the Stonehenge landscape, which is - as the Planning Inspectorate reminds the Government - a World Heritage Site https://twitter.com/AndyRT/status/1326895543168233477?s=20
Because it threatens "substantial harm" to the Stonehenge landscape, which is - as the Planning Inspectorate reminds the Government - a World Heritage Site https://twitter.com/AndyRT/status/1326895543168233477?s=20
Grantt Schapps' response? “He accepts there will be harm as a result of the Development in relation to cultural heritage & the historic environment & that this should carry great weight… This harm along with the other harms identified, are outweighed by the benefits.”
The benefits to who?
- Tory MPs in the s-west
- the haulage industry
- developers, who will make fat profit from bulldozing our most precious prehistoric landscape
- English Heritage & the Natural Trust, who will be able to charge people for a view that will no longer be free
- Tory MPs in the s-west
- the haulage industry
- developers, who will make fat profit from bulldozing our most precious prehistoric landscape
- English Heritage & the Natural Trust, who will be able to charge people for a view that will no longer be free
All of which means that a supposedly Conservative government, given the perfect excuse to cancel this monstrous development by the Planning Inspectorate, have decided instead to spaff £2bn on a white elephant that - as Highways England admit - will barely speed up travel times
The 4.8 seconds saved on an avge car journey have to be measured against reaches of time so profound that they shade into the sacred. A landscape that has endured for millennia without a massive injection of concrete & tarmac is now going to get one. Our legacy to its future.
