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DEVELOPMENT consent for the proposed A303 tunnel scheme has been "quashed".

Stonehenge Tunnel HIGHWAYS England is to press on with plans for the construction of a tunnel near Stonehenge on Salisbury Plain despite a High Court ruling last Friday that has paused the project. The agency said it will proceed with handing out contracts process for the A303 Amesbury to Berwick Down upgrade past the World Heritage Site. The £1.7 billion project aims to reduce traffic on the A303 and includes a two-mile tunnel near the 5,000-year-old neolithic monument. Following a High Court ruling against Transport Secretary Grant Shapps’ granting of a Development Consent Order ...

ESSENTIAL work is scheduled to start in September to supply electricity for Highways England’s controversial £1.7 billion A303 Amesbury to…

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...

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...