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Re: Highways England Consultation - A303/Stonehenge
Mar 03, 2017, 06:06
Not given to arguments ;) so I shall upload another interesting article on how the archaeologists are percieved...

http://thepipeline.info/blog/2017/03/02/expert-submission-poses-stonehenge-dilemma-for-historic-england-english-heritage-and-national-trust/

Blackmail by the government? That should not come as a surprise of course.

"Former Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne changed Historic England’s mission from that of being primarily a conservation body and the Government’s arms length technical and legal advisor as guardian of England’s heritage, to one of supporting explicitly what the Government defines in the National Planning Policy Framework as “sustainable development”. If the Government is determined eventually to force through the short tunnel option on the basis that it represents such a sustainable solution to a national infrastructure issue, the archaeologists at Historic England could find themselves forced to defend, support, and even promote, a solution which the rest of the archaeological and heritage world views as utterly unacceptable, possibly because the senior management of the body might fear being further sidelined and starved of resources by a vengeful Whitehall and Downing Street."
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