http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/oct/1 ... suscitated
Dubbed "zombie roads" because they were declared dead years ago but have now been resuscitated, they include a £100m bypass around Hereford, a new six-lane road through the Peak district, a dual carriageway through the Norfolk broads and a £1bn "super highway" to run much of the way from London to Ipswich. Other revived plans include a new Thames river crossing and the widening of the A303 past Stonehenge.
Roads roads everywhere?
Re: Roads roads everywhere?
So the DoT listed 40 something projects not including the a303 at stonehenge, but this handy map http://www.bettertransport.org.uk/campa ... owhere/map does include it saying:
A303 Stonehenge
Widening and bypass In the 1989 Roads for Prosperity programme
Local authority area: Somerset County Council
Who is promoting it?: Somerset County Council, South West LEP and other local councils
A huge scheme to widen this stretch of the A303 past Stonehenge to a dual carriageway. This was a massively controversial and expensive project that was dropped in 2007. However, local councils and the South West Local Enterprise Partnership are now lobbying central government again for funding.
Read this report obtained through Freedom of Information which gives minutes of a meeting held in January 2012 for the councils to discuss how they will organise "an effective lobbying framework" and persuade the government to fund their schemes.
Since then, they have conducted surveys of business people and tourists as part of this lobbying campaign (for example, see this BBC news report)
Goes right through the Stonehenge World Heritage Site.
Only the central 1.3-mile-long section of the new road nearest to the stone circle would have been in a tunnel. The other six miles of the highway would have been bulldozed at ground level, or in cuttings (deep trenches), through the priceless landscape around Stonehenge.
Total cost: £510 million in 2006
Length:
Carbon impact: Not known.
Funding info: Currently unfunded.
Planning info: This scheme was cancelled in 2007 due to high cost and environmental impact. However South West Local Enterprise Partnership and Wiltshire, Somerset and Devon county councils are encouraging the Government to consider funding the plans again.
Construction could start in:
Campaigners:
Archived website of the Save Stonehenge campaign.
Do you have a campaign against this proposal or more information? Let us know.