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A statement by Heritage Action:

We are delighted to join with many other concerned bodies such as the National Trust and the Stonehenge Alliance in welcoming the government's announcement that not only have they cancelled the Stonehenge Project and any intention to construct new roads over the World Heritage Site but also that they now favour all the non-damaging improvements which we and many others have been calling for.

The current situation	The proposal

We hope that all parties, including the government, can now work towards this common achievable aim and bring it about speedily.

As for the long and expensive saga that has preceded this satisfactory conclusion, we can do no better than to quote from the statement by Save Stonehenge:

It's an absolute scandal that English Heritage has actively campaigned to bulldoze a dual carriageway through the Stonehenge World Heritage Site for almost a decade. With the Highways Agency, it has squandered millions of pounds of public money designing a wholly inappropriate road scheme that would have wrecked this iconic landscape forever. It's good riddance to the road, but serious questions now have to be asked about why English Heritage was trying to destroy a sizeable chunk of England's heritage."

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