Stonehenge Alliance

Stonehenge WHS is, for now, no longer threatened by a road scheme. Posts of mutual interest to world heritage, transport, and environment.

[Stonehenge Alliance @SaveStonehenge]

Revocation of the A303 Stonehenge planning permission has prompted memories of the campaigns leading light, Kate Fielden. Here are some snaps of Kate Fielden in action, saving the Stonehenge landscape. And she did! We wish she were here to celebrate. @TomHolland1996

[Stonehenge Alliance @SaveStonehenge]

@holland_tom Memories of your ‘recruitment’ and other snaps of Kate Fielden in action, saving the Stonehenge landscape. And she did! But she is not here to celebrate.

[Stonehenge Alliance @SaveStonehenge]

@gbslavaukraina @holland_tom NB This extravagantly damaging scheme (>£3bn) had disintegrated into little more than a village bypass. Expressway ambitions were cancelled, grew unrealistic. As previously reported 2 yrs ago it would have £250,000 a meter… worth it to get to the next jam a few minutes faster?

[Tom Holland @holland_tom]

A great day.

Huge thanks to everyone who has contributed to the campaign against the Stonehenge Tunnel.

Especially in my thoughts today is Kate Fielden, who first recruited me to the Stonehenge Alliance.

Wishing she was still with us.

https://t.co/pcSUReCjfe

[Stonehenge Alliance @SaveStonehenge]

Spring Equinox: “When we kiss the long evenings goodbye” said @BBCWorldatOne as they joined this morning’s celebration. ☀️

[Stonehenge U.K @ST0NEHENGE]

Stonehenge Spring Equinox Celebrations 🙏

[Stonehenge Alliance @SaveStonehenge]

@AndyRoden1 @Eastreadingcom @Heidi_Labour @transportgovuk 2/2 https://t.co/9azHq1CeX6

[Stonehenge Alliance @SaveStonehenge]

And here's the lesson: Don't fly a kite on an extravagant folly before checking that it will "reflect current needs" as @Heidi_Labour put it in her reasons for revoking the undeliverable road scheme.

[Ben Graham @BenGrahamUK]

Most people don’t realise where the £180 million actually went at the A303 Stonehenge tunnel project.

It wasn’t construction.

It was years of:

• Environmental impact assessments
• Heritage & archaeological studies
• Legal challenges and consultations
• Design, engineering and traffic modelling
• Public inquiries and revisions

All before a single shovel hit the ground.

This is the real problem in Britain:

We don’t just waste money, we build systems that guarantee it.

£180 million to build nothing.

[Stonehenge Alliance @SaveStonehenge]

@AndyRoden1 @Eastreadingcom @Heidi_Labour We have supported a strategic report that contains a @transportgovuk shopping list instead of road widening. For far too long the South West has been the forgotten region with transport policy and investment stuck in the sidings. 1/2

[Stonehenge Alliance @SaveStonehenge]

@AndyRT Fine spring equinox thoughts 🌅🌈🌺

[John Adams @JohnAdamsEbble]

@SaveStonehenge @Heidi_Labour An example of @NationalHways reckless stewardship of public monies was the closure of the A360 (April-July 2024) to install high-voltage cabling for the tunnel. Even though the scheme at the time was subject to legal challenge. Another cool £10 million gone up in smoke! 🤔

[Eastreadingcommunity @Eastreadingcom]

@SaveStonehenge @Heidi_Labour just imagine if the alternative ex main line west country rail route had got that 180 million to improve travel speeds and capacity west of salibury ? take traffic off the whole A303 route @AndyRoden1

[Stonehenge Alliance @SaveStonehenge]

@AndyPBurton @1kilroywashere @greenarteries @SusanChubb1 @hawkins_carole @Ecostuffing @RandolphTrent @vamroses @BadPutty @RITB_ 👍

[Stonehenge Alliance @SaveStonehenge]

Who's fault is the £179,000,000 spent? The promoters of a folly? Or the objectors challenging that folly? The @transportgovuk's statement quoted by @LBC reveals the real problem: The scheme did not "reflect current needs". Politically driven schemes need better research.

[LBC @LBC]

Stonehenge tunnel officially scrapped - after more than £179,000,000 spent on plan https://t.co/KJuaO3a7RS

[Stonehenge Alliance @SaveStonehenge]

@ST0NEHENGE Happy Spring Equinox ☀️ wherever your are in the northern hemisphere 🌍

[Stonehenge U.K @ST0NEHENGE]

Stonehenge Spring Equinox Celebrations 🙏

[Stonehenge Alliance @SaveStonehenge]

Better to cut those losses than spend a fortune on a damaging folly! #StonehengeWHS saved! @UNESCO @elounasso

[Kilroy Was Here @1kilroywashere]

'Planning consent has been formally revoked for road tunnel at Stonehenge, but only after millions had been spent on the cancelled project. https://t.co/bp9Z6mpirq @greenarteries @SusanChubb1 @hawkins_carole @Ecostuffing @RandolphTrent @vamroses @BadPutty @RITB_ @SaveStonehenge

[Stonehenge Alliance @SaveStonehenge]

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[Vak 228 @Vak228]

@JohnAdamsEbble @holland_tom Even here in Belgium we jump for joy. Excellent news.

[Stonehenge Alliance @SaveStonehenge]

@holland_tom @meolscop1978 We miss her so much. And she’s missing much…

[Tom Holland @holland_tom]

Congratulations to this wise and visionary government!