Stonehenge monument declared ‘safe’ from threat of ‘unlawful’ road tunnel after High Court victory

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A two-mile-long tunnel would have been built as part of the plan

Highways England says its plan for a tunnel would have hidden the traffic passing the site, and cut journey times.The scheme was approved, despite Planning Inspectorate officials warning that it would cause “permanent, irreversible harm” to the Unesco World Heritage Site.

 

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