Druids, pagans, environmentalists and archaeologists gather in London in fight for Stonehenge

Sign up for our free Health Check email to receive exclusive analysis on the week in health Get our free Health Check email Get our free Health Check email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. In written submissions on Tuesday, David Wolfe KC, for Save Stonehenge World Heritage Site said the project would be the first step in “de-listing” the Unesco world heritage site. He also said the approved scheme would “destroy” around seven hectares of the world heritage site, a change that would be “permanent and irreversible”. She added: “This site is so precious and if the tunnel were to go ahead this site would be outright destroyed, so they talk ‘oh it’s just the henge and it won’t be harmed by the tunnel’, but this very signicant site will be destroyed.” In court, Mr Wolfe argued that the government gave “unlawful consideration of alternatives” to the project, adding that campaigners believed National Highways had provided “fundamentally flawed” information over these that “failed to acknowledge the heritage harm” and was based on a “flawed analysis of likely traffic figures for the A303”. open image in gallery The barrister said the government concluded the project was “consistent with the UK’s obligations” under the world heritage convention and that it would work with advisory bodies to “minimise harm”.