Concerns of ICOMOS-UK regarding Stonehenge
Further to its position statement issued in February 2000, ICOMOS-UK, the body responsible for safeguarding the Stonehenge World Heritage Site, has now expressed a number of concerns about the way the Stonehenge Master Plan is proceeding...
Concerns of ICOMOS-UK regarding Stonehenge1. That the options for routing the A303 at Stonehenge be assessed on equal terms. (On present information, such options would appear to be the 4 km bored tunnel, a 2 km bored tunnel, and the 2 km cut and cover tunnel.)
2. That due regard is paid to the importance of the World Heritage Site as a whole, and not simply to that part closest to the stones.
3. That there should be real "joined up thinking" on the part of central government, with a particular focus upon the responsibility of the State Party to respect its duty under the World Heritage Convention to ensure the protection, conservation, and presentation of the Site, to the utmost of its resources.
4. That the current position regarding the "Master Plan" should be clarified (eg the situation on the original position for the drop-off point at Fargo), and the whole subsumed in a normal unified Management Plan process as soon as possible.
July 2001