Campaigners launch fresh Stonehenge road legal challenge

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Save Stonehenge World Heritage Site is challenging Mark Harper’s decision to back the £1.7 billion scheme to overhaul eight miles of the A303, including the two-mile tunnel. A development consent order previously issued for the National Highways project was quashed by the High Court in July 2021 amid concern about the environmental impact on the Unesco World Heritage Site. The Government appears both blind and deaf to concerns about the damage it will perpetrate on this historic and much-loved landscape John Adams, Stonehenge Alliance The Save Stonehenge World Heritage Site alliance successfully challenged his decision in the High Court. “We believe we have no choice but to launch a second legal challenge in the face of such belligerence.” Rowan Smith, a Leigh Day solicitor who represents the campaigners, said: “Our client is shocked that the Government appears not to have learnt from its mistakes and has repeated the decision to grant development consent for the Stonehenge road scheme.