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Stonehenge
In 1998 all the key stakeholders in the Stonehenge World Heritage Site agreed to:
- remove the roads and traffic from the area near the Stones
- improve the landscape by returning it to chalk downland, and
- transform the visitor experience through better access and a new world class visitor centre
DCMS is directly involved in the two key infrastructure developments that will ensure the delivery of the vision of Stonehenge reunited with the chalk downland with increased access for the public and the sight and sound of traffic removed from the stone circle.
The two projects are the A303 Stonehenge Improvement which will place the A303 in a 2.1km bored tunnel to the south of the existing road as well as a flyover at the Countess East junction and a by-pass for Winterborne Stoke. English Heritage, together with the National Trust, are building new visitor facilities at Countess East and there will be new access arrangements to the wider landscape. The current inadequate visitor facilities will be closed and the A303 and A344 removed.
DCMS, together with HLF, the Highways Agency, English Heritage and the National Trust is making a significant financial contribution to both schemes.
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