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Re: Avebury Bypass

Jun 27, 2004, 22:13

"(god only knows why they need to thunder through a World Heritage Site though). As for there being nowhere to run a bypass - come off it! What's a barn or two (even the odd tumuli here or there) got to do with the greater importance of Avebury?"

Where is this Avebury of which you speak? Do you mean the Stonehenge-Avebury World Heritage Site which, at last count, contained over 1000 known monuments? You are right to say there's not enough geophiz done, but it's a fact that wherever they do look they find more stuff so the figure of 1000 is bound to be far too low. If you can wend a way through that lot you're welcome to construct a bypass (so long as you don't go through a SSSI or the Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty or destroy any Spirit of Place!

Do I gather you're actually lobbying for a bypass? I've heard of a NIMBY but never an IMBYP - In My Back Yard Please! If there's too much traffic call for restrictions, and bans on lorries etc that's the only realistic option surely?

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