Stonehenge Tunnel A JUDICIAL review hearing into the Stonehenge road project has been ordered. Campaigners have secured a hearing in their judicial review challenge about the decision to allow a new A303 dual carriageway and tunnel that would cause significant harm to the Stonehenge World Heritage Site (WHS). It comes after the Guardian reported that Transport Secretary Grant Shapps ignored official advice to review the scheme on environmental grounds. Transport Action Network (Tan) is accusing the Department for Transport (DfT) of failing to take account of the Paris Agreement, which commits signatories such as the UK to tackle climate change by taking measures to limit global warming to well below 2C.
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It comes as campaigners have issued their legal claim in their fight to halt the project. Save Stonehenge World Heritage Site (SSWHS) has applied for judicial review of Transport Secretary Grant Shapps’ decision to grant development consent to the eight-mile project that includes a two-mile tunnel past Stonehenge, with cuttings and tunnel entrances within the WHS. Campaigners say a pre-action letter sent by Leigh Day solicitors on behalf of SSWHS did not receive a satisfactory response , and so a claim for judicial review was filed on December 22 before the December 24 deadline. Permission for the A303 scheme was granted against the advice of a five-person panel of expert inspectors, the Examining Authority (ExA), who said the project would permanently harm the integrity of the World Heritage Site and seriously harm its authenticity .