The public consultation ended on 17 October 2008.

Feedback and comments on the draft  World Heritage Site Management Plan will be analysed by the World Heritage Site Committee who will take them into account when deciding on the final draft of the Plan. The final Plan will be submitted to the Minister for Culture for endorsement and published in early 2009.

Feedback to the Environmental Improvements options will be considered by the Project Implementation Group when drawing up its recommendations to the Government. The Culture Minister is expected to announce a decision before the end of 2008.

Stonehenge is perhaps England’s most famous and important ancient monument, inscribed with Avebury as a World Heritage Site in 1986. The need to care for it properly has been recognised for many years, as has the need to improve its landscape setting and its presentation to visitors.

Publication of the World Heritage Site Management Plan in 2000 was an important step forward; at its heart was a vision of Stonehenge surrounded by open grassland. Two major projects were planned to support this: to remove the roads from around Stonehenge by placing the A303 in a tunnel, and to relocate visitor facilities to a new centre away from the Stones. Public Inquiries were held into each, and the outcomes reviewed at length.

Although the Government decided that the A303 road improvements were unaffordable, it has made a commitment in December 2007 to review the Management Plan as the overarching strategic document for the Site, and to complete environmental improvements at Stonehenge, including new visitor facilities, in time for the 2012 Olympics. This work includes examination of the case for closing the A303/ A344 junction to improve the setting of Stonehenge. A new Stonehenge Project Board, chaired by the Ministers for Culture and for Transport, has been set up to oversee this work.

These proposals are now the subject of a three month public consultation until 17 October 2008.

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Public Consultation Booklet (38 pages - 2.1Mb)

WHS Management Plan (160 pages - 2.4Mb)

WHS Management Plan Summary (12 pages - 800Kb)

Stonehenge viewed from the East © English Heritage

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