Stonehenge Campaigners Lose Latest Legal Challenge to Government’s Tunnel Project

Published on February 20, 2024

A High Court judge has thrown out a legal challenge by campaigners to the government’s plans to build a £1.7 billion road tunnel near Stonehenge. The single-carriageway A303, which runs close to the UNESCO world heritage site, has been plagued with traffic jams for years, and last year the Department for Transport (DfT) approved a plan to build a two-mile tunnel from Amesbury, Wiltshire, to Berwick Down. Campaigners have claimed the project would have a devastating environmental impact on the stone circle, which was built around 5,000 years ago. Planning permission was first approved in November 2020 by then-Transport Secretary Grant Shapps, despite advice from Planning Inspectorate officials who said it would cause “permanent, irreversible harm” to Stonehenge....

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