Stonehenge scheme back in court as earthmovers stood down (again)21/05/2024 A further round of legal action will cause more delays to its £2bn scheme to build a tunnel for the A303 at Stonehenge, National Highways has said. |
National Highways presses on with A303 works09/04/2024 National Highways has started preliminary work on its £2bn A303 Stonehenge tunnel scheme. |
National Highways celebrates High Court Stonehenge scheme win23/02/2024 National Highways has won a legal judgement in the High Court over the secretary of state for transport’s decision to grant the Development Consent Order for the A303 Stonehenge scheme. |
Collaborative 'ongoing trial' on A303 'to make our roads safer'29/01/2024 National Highways has introduced a lower speed limit to improve safety and address severance on a single carriageway section of the A303 through a Wiltshire village. |
Snow tries to bury resurrected A303 scheme11/12/2023 Campaigners are returning to the High Court after ministers again overruled their own planning inspectors to back National Highways' controversial plans to build a tunnel for the A303 at Stonehenge. |
Round in (stone) circles? Stonehenge decision faces another legal challenge29/08/2023 Campaigners have launched a legal challenge to the Government’s renewed approval of the £2bn A303 Stonehenge tunnel scheme. |
Ministers again overrule inspectors over A30317/07/2023 Campaigners have accused the transport secretary of a decision that ‘will permanently disfigure Britain’s most significant and sacred prehistoric landscape’ after he gave the go-ahead for National Highways’ controversial plans for a tunnel for the A303 at Stonehenge. |
National Highways digs in over A303 'rethink'20/09/2022 National Highways has said it is entitled to stick to its cut-price plans for the A303 at Stonehenge and pushed back against a suggestion from UNESCO that reconsideration of the scheme’s planning application should await a meeting of its world heritage body. |
Mace's magic wins Stonehenge and Black Cat work17/06/2022 Mace has won a five-year contract to deliver commercial services on two of National Highways’ major projects through its Complex Infrastructure Programme (CIP). |
New consultation for £500m A358 scheme27/05/2022 National Highways has launched a supplementary consultation for its scheme to upgrade the A358 in Somerset. |
National Highways names preferred bidder for £1.25bn Stonehenge scheme26/05/2022 National Highways has selected the MORE joint venture as its preferred bidder for the £1.25bn contract for the tunnel and main construction work for the A303 Amesbury to Berwick Down scheme at Stonehenge. |
A358 upgrade 'has been a long time coming'13/10/2021 National Highways has launched a consultation for the upgrade of the A358 in Somerset, seven years after prime minister David Cameron announced that the scheme would be one of three major schemes in the key A303 corridor. |
Tender announced for £60m Stonehenge job17/06/2021 Highways England has launched its search for a Delivery Assurance Partner to support the delivery of the £1.7bn A303 Amesbury to Berwick Down scheme. |
Shapps backs another A303 dualling scheme04/02/2021 Transport secretary Grant Shapps has given the formal green light to a plan to add a further three miles of dual carriageway to the A303 in Somerset. |
Ministers 'could stop digging' as A303 tunnel costs rise02/03/2020 Highways England has described as ‘speculation’ reports that the planned tunnel for the A303 at Stonehenge could be scrapped. |
No light at the end of tunnel funding impasse06/01/2020 The Planning Inspectorate has passed its recommendation on plans to build a tunnel at Stonehenge to the transport secretary but the project remains unfunded. |
UN unhappy as Govt saves £540m on Stonehenge tunnel04/06/2019 The UN is set to urge ministers to reconsider plans for a tunnel at Stonehenge, including extending the tunnel so its western portal is outside the World Heritage Site – a move the UK has rejected on cost grounds. |
UNESCO feedback 'will inform final Stonehenge plan'16/04/2018 Highways England has pledged to further refine its plans for a tunnel at Stonehenge in response to the views of international heritage experts. |
New route for the Stonehenge road tunnel unveiled as costs rise12/09/2017 Highways England has modified its plans for a road tunnel under Stonehenge as part of its £1.6bn A303 upgrade, however it still faces staunch criticism over the scheme and its mounting costs. |
Government gives green light to Stonehenge tunnel plans12/01/2017 Plans for a 1.8 mile road tunnel that will run past Stonehenge have been finalised by the Government. |
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