Back in February of 2020, Winterbourne Stoke Parish Council, as stakeholders with the Stonehenge World Heritage Site Committee, were actively involved in the Exploring the World Heritage Site and...
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Onboard and Online: Grant Shapps Approves the A303 Stonehenge Scheme
We've been deliberately slow to react to the news last Thursday (12/11/2020) from the Department for Transport that Secretary of State, Grant Shapps, had decided to approve the Development Consent...
Government Looking at Private Finance to Improve the A303 – Delays Seem Inevitable
Villagers may be very interested to made aware of the 2017 Annual Report on the Government Major Projects Portfolio (GMPP) from the Infrastructure and Projects Authority (IPA), published yesterday...
Parish Council Response to the A303 Stonehenge Scheme Public Consultation
The Parish Council has today uploaded its response to the A303 Stonehenge Scheme Public Consultation to the Documents section of this website. This has had to be split into two parts because of...
A Lot of Furious Paddling
It has been almost a week since we held the Meeting for the Parish to discuss concerns about the proposed A303 bypass routes around Winterbourne Stoke. If everything seems to have gone quiet, rest...
The Highways England Response To Our Request For More Detailed Information
Following the A303 Consultation Meetings of 13th and 14th January, and comments received, Highways England were asked for more detail. A lot more detail: ...when you scratched away at the surface,...
A303 Presentation – Lots of Pretty Pictures But Was There Much Substance?
UPDATED: 1600 Mon 16th January The Parish Council got an early sight of the Highways England A303 options for Winterbourne Stoke on Friday 13th January (Not a very auspicious date if you are a...
The UK’s Worst-Kept Secret: A Stonehenge Tunnel and Bypass For Winterbourne Stoke
As late as last night we were still being told by Highways England that the Press conference releasing the news on what was going to be put forward for the A303 Stonehenge Scheme Public Consultation...
A303 Stonehenge Scheme Public Consultation: Twiddling Our Thumbs
Well, the one thing we can say for certain about the planned A303 Stonehenge Scheme Public Consultation is that the silence from Highways England is pretty deafening. Parishioners are left...
A303 Stonehenge Scheme Public Consultation – Does Confusion Reign?
We promised to keep parishioners abreast of developments in relation to the public consultation on the A303 Stonehenge scheme - being so close, as it is, to village interests. That was on Thursday...