Stonehenge Tunnel Delayed After Campaigners Win Right to Appeal Judicial Review

Published on May 21, 2024

Stonehenge Tunnel works will be delayed indefinitely, following the decision by the Court of Appeal to uphold campaigners’ case against the £1.7 billion scheme. Save Stonehenge World Heritage Site (SSWHS) has won the right to appeal a previous High Court decision to reject a judicial review of the government decision to approve the scheme. 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....

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